US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 27 for "Haptic response regularization for haptic buttons of portable electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,334, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Haptic response regularization for haptic buttons of portable electronic devices" was invented by Lei Zhang (Fremont, Calif.) and Shingo Yoneoka (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user input component for an electronic device includes a haptic engine, a pressing surface, and a force sensor. The force sensor detects force applied by a user to the pressing surface and from this value and a spring constant of a supporting structure, an approximate displacement distance can be determined. The displacement distance can be used either directly or indir...