US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 18 for "Touch sensing architecture for small form factors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,843, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Touch sensing architecture for small form factors" was invented by Karan S. Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Nandita Venugopal (San Francisco) and Santosh Pokhrel (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch sensor panel operable within small form factor devices utilizes a plurality of discrete column electrodes arranged in a plurality of columns, and a plurality of continuous row electrodes arranged in a plurality of rows. Each column is divided into a plurality of regions, with each region formed from a plurality of electrically connected discrete column e...