G06F 3/03547
Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface
Official title: {Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface}
G06F3/03547 (Touch pads, in which fingers can move on a surface) appears on 4,305 US grants and 5,591 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Published applications
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Calibration of touch operation for controlling a head-mounted display apparatus6 Oct 2026US 12,754,624 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- External user interface for head worn computing6 Oct 2026US 12,754,642 B2Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
- Systems and methods of steerable elongate device29 Sep 2026US 12,748,504 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
- Screen control method and screen control apparatus29 Sep 2026US 12,749,464 B2ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC.
- Housing as an I/O device22 Sep 2026US 12,743,124 B2
- Electronic apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310312 A1Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Input device with haptic effects1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299694 A1Aito BV
- Touch input device1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299715 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- System and method for synchronising lighting event among devices24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284521 A1Razer (Asia-Pacific) Pte. Ltd.
- Touch-sensitive sensor device for sensing a position of an object touch24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288259 A1ams-OSRAM AG
Most cited
By later US patents
- Object position detector with edge motion feature and gesture recognition2,193US 5,880,411 ASynaptics Incorporated · 1999
- Touch pad handheld device1,123US 7,046,230 B2Apple Computer, Inc. · 2006
- Touch pad driven handheld computing device892US 5,543,588 ASynaptics Incorporated · 1996
- Haptic feedback for touchpads and other touch controls711US 6,429,846 B2Immersion Corporation · 2002
- Touch sensitive control device705US 4,550,221 A1985