US Patent Issued to UltraSense Systems on April 15 for "Multi-virtual button finger-touch input systems and methods of detecting a finger-touch event at one of a plurality of virtual buttons" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,292, issued on April 15, was assigned to UltraSense Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-virtual button finger-touch input systems and methods of detecting a finger-touch event at one of a plurality of virtual buttons" was invented by Michael Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhongxuan Tu (Shanghai), Sina Akhbari (San Jose, Calif.) and Hao-Yen Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-virtual button finger-touch input system includes a cover layer, force-measuring and touch-sensing integrated circuits (FMTSICs), each coupled to the inner surface of the cover layer corresponding to one of the virtual buttons, an elongate...