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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2020
Applicant:
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
Inventors:
James E. Colgate, Evanston, IL (US);
Michael A. Peshkin, Evanston, IL (US);
Assignee:
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G09B 21/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/016 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 3/0446 (2019.05); G06F 3/04164 (2019.05); G09B 21/003 (2013.01);
Abstract
A touchscreen includes conductive islands that are capacitively coupled to conductive traces, where they may be used to provide capacitive sensing of the position of one or more fingers in contact with a touchscreen and/or to exert haptic forces on one or more fingers in contact with a touchscreen.