ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,179, issued on July 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Touch interaction detection" was invented by Vinay Chawda (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ashwin Kumar Asoka Kumar Shenoi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations disclosed herein facilitate identify touch interactions based on sensor data from sensors that sense skin deformation of a finger while the finger performs the touch interaction. In some implementations, a processor performs a method to identify a touch interaction by executing instructions stored in a computer-readable medium. The method obtains deformation data from a pluralit...