ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,631, issued on July 15, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"Touch detecting method and touch detecting device" was invented by Jui Min Liu (Saitama, Japan), Shigeyuki Sano (Saitama, Japan) and Yuhi Hatano (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch detecting method includes determining a size of a first touch surface area in which each of first capacitances exceeds a first threshold value, and determining that a detected indicator is a stylus or a finger based on a size of the first touch surface area. In response to determining that the detected indicator is the stylus, obtaining second capacitances by proce...