Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'Systems, Methods, And Devices Including Optical Occlusion Detection' Filed by Apple Inc.

MUMBAI, India, April 18 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202414072892 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Sept. 26, 2024, for 'systems, methods, and devices including optical occlusion detection.'

Inventor(s) include Chen, Tong; Zhang, Xiaoyang; Ewy, Christopher K.; and Colahan, Ian P.

The application for the patent was published on April 18, under issue no. 16/2025.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Present examples are directed to systems and methods for detecting local optical occlusion on a handheld input device and/or for smartly driving one or more light emitters of a constellation 5 of light emitters of the handheld input device that are used in spat...