US Patent Issued on Sept. 22 for "Housing as an I/O device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,124, issued on Sept. 22.

"Housing as an I/O device" was invented by Aleksandar Pance (Saratoga, Calif.), Nicholas Vincent King (San Jose, Calif.), Duncan Kerr (San Francisco) and Brett Bilbrey (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There are provided systems, devices and methods for operating a housing for an electronic device as an input/output (I/O) device. In one embodiment, an electronic device includes a housing configured to function as an integrated housing and I/O device and one or more sensors obscured by a panel of the housing. The one or more sensors being configured to sense via the panel of the housing. The e...