MUMBAI, India, July 24 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202415090679 A) filed by Apple Inc. on November 21, 2024, for Differential Drive And Sense For Touch Sensor Panel.
Inventors include Smith, John Stephen; Nayyar, Amit; Reynolds, Joseph Kurth; Vaze, Sagar Rajiv; and Yousefpor, Marduke.
The application for the patent was published on July 17, 2026, under issue no. 29/2026.
Abstract: Touch sensor panels (500) (or touch screens) can improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) using touch electrode patterns for differential drive and/or differential sense techniques. In some examples, a touch sensor panel (500) can include a twodimensional array of touch nodes (226, 227) formed from a plurality of touch electrod...