US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Electronic device with display light sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,840, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic device with display light sensor" was invented by Tong Chen (Fremont, Calif.), Wenrui Cai (Saratoga, Calif.), Jenny Hu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Clint M Perlaki (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitter that operates through a display may cause display artifacts, even when the light emitter operates using non-visible wavelengths. To determine whether the light emitter has caused these artifacts, a display light sensor under the display may measure backside light leakage from the display. Based on the measured backside light leakag...