G06F 3/04186
Touch location disambiguation
Official title: {Touch location disambiguation}
G06F3/04186 (Touch location disambiguation) appears on 1,576 US grants and 1,920 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 1,576
- Published applications
- 1,920
- Assignees
- 452
- Inventors
- 3,023
- Latest grant
- 15 Sep 2026
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| 2010 | 12 | 45 |
| 2011 | 14 | 48 |
| 2012 | 24 | 88 |
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| 2014 | 80 | 134 |
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| 2017 | 131 | 135 |
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| 2019 | 131 | 91 |
| 2020 | 110 | 127 |
| 2021 | 149 | 117 |
| 2022 | 138 | 146 |
| 2023 | 113 | 121 |
| 2024 | 117 | 101 |
| 2025 | 91 | 94 |
| 2026 | 57 | 67 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Touch sensing device and display device including the same15 Sep 2026US 12,737,082 B2Lx Semicon Co., Ltd.
- Control method, control apparatus, electronic device, storage medium, and computer program product1 Sep 2026US 12,725,446 B2Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.
- Method, device, and system of an earphone having increased comfort through external-facing charging connections, enhanced controls through direction and/or motion evaluation, and/or accurate physiological feature extraction through audio-motion sensor correlation25 Aug 2026US 12,720,250 B2Stealth Labs Inc.
- Electrostatic input device18 Aug 2026US 12,710,846 B2Alps Alpine Co., Ltd.
- Heat-sensing touch interface18 Aug 2026US 12,710,847 B1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Touch screen controller system and method for a gaming machine8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311540 A1Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty Limited
- Methods, controllers, and machine-readable storage media for automated commissioning of equipment8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313820 A1PassiveLogic, Inc.
- Touch driving device and touch driving method thereof1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299731 A1Lx Semicon Co., Ltd.
- Proprioception measurement system1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299734 A1Korea Institute of Science and Technology
- Touch detection device and touch detection method thereof1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299735 A1Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input3,711US 6,323,846 B1University of Delaware · 2001
- Multiple fingers contact sensing method for emulating mouse buttons and mouse operations on a touch sensor pad2,510US 5,825,352 ALogitech, Inc. · 1998
- Paintbrush stylus for capacitive touch sensor pad2,104US 5,488,204 ASynaptics Incorporated · 1996
- Activating virtual keys of a touch-screen virtual keyboard792US 7,844,914 B2Apple Inc. · 2010
- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input703US 6,888,536 B2University of Delaware · 2005