US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 15 for "Devices and methods for detecting input to a touch-sensitive surface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,085, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices and methods for detecting input to a touch-sensitive surface" was invented by Omid Mahdavipour (San Jose, Calif.) and Supratik Datta (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of auxiliary electrodes added to an electronic device improves touch detection on a first surface of the electronic device. In some examples, the plurality of auxiliary electrodes are disposed outside of a first dimension of the first surface and non-parallel to the first surface. In some examples, the electronic device is configured to reduce touch detection er...