US Patent Issued to Universal Electronics on Dec. 16 for "System and method for multi-mode command input" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,794, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and method for multi-mode command input" was invented by Arsham Hatambeiki (Scottsdale, Ariz.), Jeffrey Kohanek (Westminster, Calif.) and Pamela Eichler Keiles (Long Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controlling device has a moveable touch sensitive panel positioned above a plurality of switches. When the controlling device senses an activation of at least one of the plurality of switches when caused by a movement of the touch sensitive panel resulting from an input at an input location upon the touch sensitive surface, the co...