US Patent Issued to Apple on March 24 for "Photo-sensing enabled display for touch detection with customized photodiode and light emitting diode component level angular response" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,360, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Photo-sensing enabled display for touch detection with customized photodiode and light emitting diode component level angular response" was invented by Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost (Foster City, Calif.) and Paul J. Gelsinger (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may have a touch sensitive display with optical touch sensors that are insensitive to the presence of moisture. The optical touch sensors may include light sources and light detectors. Light illuminator and detector angular filters (e.g., masks, baffles) can be employed ...