US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 18 for "Touch electrodes with bar and stripe pattern" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,851, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Touch electrodes with bar and stripe pattern" was invented by Christophe Blondin (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Xiaoqi Zhou (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This relates to touch sensor panels/touch screens including touch electrodes in a bar-and-stripe pattern. The bar-and-stripe pattern can improve touch signal levels for touch detection and improve uniformity of touch signal as objects move across the touch sensor panel/touch screen. Touch electrodes in a bar-and-stripe pattern can be formed from metal mesh in one or more layers of metal mesh. In so...