US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 4 for "Modular sensing assembly for an electronic device" (California, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,360, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Modular sensing assembly for an electronic device" was invented by Daniel J. Hiemstra (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Erik G. de Jong (San Francisco), Kevin F. Holz (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Michael B. Wittenberg (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Timothy D. Koch (Santa Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular sensing assembly may be used to detect user inputs at an electronic device. Example user inputs include touch inputs, fingerprint inputs, translational inputs, audio inputs, biometric inputs, and the like. Inputs received using the modular sensing assembly may be used to ...