Patent 7843439 was granted and assigned to N-Trig on November, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A detector for detecting touches of at least one object on a transparent sensor located over a display screen, the detector comprising. a display screen; a patterned arrangement of conductors extending into said sensor situated over said display screen; and detection circuitry adapted to detect capacitive coupling of said at least one object with said at least one conductor.