ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,801, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Inductive stylus sensing" was invented by Sagar R. Vaze (San Jose, Calif.) and Marduke Yousefpor (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrodes configurable for capacitive touch sensing or inductive sensing are disclosed. The electrodes are formed from a plurality of tiled (connected) sense pixels, each sense pixel including two or four conductive elements. The conductive elements within the plurality of sense pixels of an electrode are connected to form conductive pathways within the electrode. These conductive pathways enable each electrode to be ...