ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,994, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TouchNetix AS (Trondheim, Norway).

"Resource allocation apparatus and method" was invented by Kai Kristian Amundsen (Trondheim, Norway) and Trond Jarle Pedersen (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resource allocation controller for a touch-sensitive apparatus, comprising: a timing module for obtaining timing information; a timeslot counter configured to output an indication of a current timeslot of a plurality of timeslots based on the obtained timing information; an allocation module configured to allocate a first resource to one of a first function and a second function during...