Patent 10198097 was granted and assigned to Sentons on February, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Detecting a touch input force is disclosed. A signal to be used to propagate a propagating signal through a propagating medium with a surface is sent. The propagating signal that has been disturbed by a touch input with an amount of force on the surface is received. The received signal is processed to determine an identifier associated with the amount of force.