Patents by Inventor Rachad EL-KAAFARANI

Rachad EL-KAAFARANI has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Dynamic exclusion zone for touchscreen physical controls
    Patent number: 11073946
    Abstract: Touch input from a user may be selectively ignored. Responsive to receipt of touch input to a physical control, the physical control at least partially overlapping a touchscreen configured to display onscreen controls, a size of an exclusion zone surrounding the physical control may be increased from a default size to an enlarged size greater than the default size, the exclusion zone representing an area of the touchscreen within which touch input to the touchscreen is not passed to an application executed by the processor. Responsive to a lack of receipt of the touch input to the physical control, the size of the exclusion zone may be decreased from the enlarged size to the default size, allowing touch input to onscreen controls outside the default size of the exclusion zone to be passed to the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Madden, Sarthak Manna, Jeffery Dippel, Mohammad Kalash, Rachad El-Kaafarani
  • DYNAMIC EXCLUSION ZONE FOR TOUCHSCREEN PHYSICAL CONTROLS
    Publication number: 20210149541
    Abstract: Touch input from a user may be selectively ignored. Responsive to receipt of touch input to a physical control, the physical control at least partially overlapping a touchscreen configured to display onscreen controls, a size of an exclusion zone surrounding the physical control may be increased from a default size to an enlarged size greater than the default size, the exclusion zone representing an area of the touchscreen within which touch input to the touchscreen is not passed to an application executed by the processor. Responsive to a lack of receipt of the touch input to the physical control, the size of the exclusion zone may be decreased from the enlarged size to the default size, allowing touch input to onscreen controls outside the default size of the exclusion zone to be passed to the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas MADDEN, Sarthak MANNA, Jeffery DIPPEL, Mohammad KALASH, Rachad EL-KAAFARANI