ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,512, issued on May 27, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"System for touch pad" was invented by Jun Kadowaki (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for a touch pad used by both a finger and a pen to input operations to a computer. The system includes a sensor electrode group, an integrated circuit, and a memory storing a device driver. The sensor electrode group is configured to be placed over a touch surface that is different from a display surface of the computer. The integrated circuit uses the sensor electrode group to detect a touch position on the touch surface where the finger is in ...