US Patent Issued to Google on July 7 for "Screen protector presence detection" (American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,191, issued on July 7, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Screen protector presence detection" was invented by Mark Chang (Brisbane City, Australia) and Chiayun Kuan (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and apparatuses are described that perform screen protector presence detection. In example aspects, an electronic device detects the presence (or absence) of a screen protector based on touch screen data provided by a touch screen during a time period that a user performs a touch-based gesture. With the touch screen data, screen protector presence detection can be performed without the need for ...