US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 24 for "Capacitive touch sensing with reduced ambient light interference" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,033, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Capacitive touch sensing with reduced ambient light interference" was invented by Bin Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), William Paul (San Francisco), Luya Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Christoph H. Krah (Cupertino, Calif.) and Stanley B. Wang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch sensor panel can include a plurality of touch electrodes, one or more light detectors, a plurality of chiplets configurable for light sensing operation using the one or more light detectors or touch sensing operation using the plurality of touch electrodes, and processing circ...