ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,476, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Remote surface touch detection for electronic devices" was invented by Baptiste C. Uzel (San Diego), Kevin Durfee (San Francisco), Robert D. Watson (Menlo Park, Calif.), Timothy S. Paek (Mercer Island, Wash.), Wasifa Jamal (San Diego), Soham Banerjee (San Jose, Calif.) and Vaishnavi Dhulkhed (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for detection of a user input with an electronic device, in which the input is received on or using a case for an electronic device. In one or more implementatio...