G06F 2203/04809
Textured surface identifying touch areas
Official title: Textured surface identifying touch areas, e.g. overlay structure for a virtual keyboard
G06F2203/04809 (Textured surface identifying touch areas) appears on 532 US grants and 783 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 532
- Published applications
- 783
- Assignees
- 314
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Editor's pen pad15 Sep 2026US 12,739,330 B2
- Systems and methods for using stencils for multitouch interactive exploration9 Jun 2026US 12,650,764 B2JPMorgan Chase Bank, N. A.
- Laptop computer with dynamic trackpad region19 May 2026US 12,632,131 B2Apple Inc.
- Optical proximity sensors19 May 2026US 12,632,147 B2Neonode Inc.
- Sensing apparatus, electronic device, and control method for electronic device9 Sep 2025US 12,411,552 B2Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Touch screen information input method for smart device and smart device itself6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227900 A1Ingenico (Fujian) Technology Co., Ltd.
- Secure access control reader comprising a system for entering a code with activation of a mode suitable for visually impaired persons30 Jul 2026US 2026/0221052 A1Systemes Et Technologies Identification (Stid)
- Covers and keypad overlays for handheld device data entry11 Jun 2026US 2026/0164579 A1Micount LLC
- Keyboard device and information apparatus system19 Mar 2026US 2026/0081084 A1Lenovo Japan LLC
- Editor's Pen Pad11 Dec 2025US 2025/0379946 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Touch sensitive control device705US 4,550,221 A1985
- Apparatus and method for tactile feedback from input device366US 6,473,069 B1Cirque Corporation · 2002
- Touchpad with scroll and pan regions310US 5,748,185 AStratos Product Development Group, Inc. · 1998
- System for disposing a proximity sensitive touchpad behind a mobile phone keypad272US 7,151,528 B2Cirque Corporation · 2006
- Touch operation information output device230US 6,198,475 B1Kabushiki Kaisha Tokai Rika Denki Seisakusho · 2001