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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2021

Filed:

Dec. 12, 2018
Applicant:

3m Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);

Inventors:

Rodrigo S. Gomes, Medford, MA (US);

Richard A. Peterson, Jr., Chelmsford, MA (US);

Bruce A. Lessard, Salem, MA (US);

Gordon F. Taylor, Bolton, MA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G05B 19/418 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05B 19/41875 (2013.01); G06F 3/0418 (2013.01); G05B 2219/33297 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45031 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04103 (2013.01); Y02P 90/04 (2015.11);
Abstract

Touch sensing circuit arrangements include a touch sensor and a controller board. The touch sensor includes one or more sensing elements to generate touch-related signals responsive to a touch input to the sensor, and a memory device storing computer-executable firmware instructions for determining touch positions based on the touch-related signals. The controller board includes query logic executable by the controller board to cause the controller board to query for the computer-executable firmware instructions stored on the memory device of the touch sensor, and a processor circuit to determine touch positions by executing the firmware instructions loaded onto the generic controller board in response to the query.


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