US Patent Issued to Apple on July 21 for "Techniques for reducing baseline capacitance in a mutual capacitance touch sensor panel" (California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,948, issued on July 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for reducing baseline capacitance in a mutual capacitance touch sensor panel" was invented by Kohei Azumi (Los Gatos, Calif.), Sagar R. Vaze (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Saurabh Singh (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a touch sensor panel includes a plurality of touch electrodes in a first layer including a plurality of first drive electrodes along a first axis, a plurality of second drive electrodes along the first axis, and a plurality of sense electrodes formed of sense electrode segments along a second axis. The touch se...