Patent 9804717 was granted and assigned to Synaptics on October, 2017 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
In a method of input sensing and exclusion, an input is detected within a sensing region of an input device. It is determined that the input is along an edge of the input device. It is then determined whether the input satisfies exclusion criteria. Responsive to satisfaction of the exclusion criteria, the input is excluded from consideration as valid input.