US Patent Issued to Apple on March 3 for "Architecture for differential drive and sense touch technology" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,515, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Architecture for differential drive and sense touch technology" was invented by Marduke Yousefpor (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Differential driving and/or sensing can reduce noise in a touch screen. In some examples, the touch screen can include column and row electrodes routed vertically in the active area. In some examples, the touch electrodes and/or routing traces can be implemented using metal mesh in first and second metal layers. To improve optical performance, overlapping portions of metal mesh can be designed to provide an appearance...