US Patent Issued to UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS on Sept. 23 for "System and methods for enhanced remote control functionality" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,083, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to UNIVERSAL ELECTRONICS INC. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"System and methods for enhanced remote control functionality" was invented by Arsham Hatambeiki (Irvine, Calif.), Jeffrey Kohanek (Westminster, Calif.) and Naimisaranya D. Busek (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hand-held device having a touch sensitive surface uses a relative distance from an origin location to each of a plurality of touch zones of the touch sensitive surface activated by a user to select a one of the plurality of touch zones as being intended for activation by the user."

The patent was filed on April 27, 2023, un...