US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 2 for "Touch electrode architecture for touch screen including touch electrode-free region" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,716, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Touch electrode architecture for touch screen including touch electrode-free region" was invented by Ashray Vinayak Gogte (Campbell, Calif.), Yufei Zhao (San Francisco), Christophe Blondin (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yoann J. Lanet (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a touch screen includes a first region corresponding to a region of the touch screen without touch electrodes; a second region corresponding to a region of the touch screen with a first conductive material (e.g., solid metal) with a first density in a first conductive layer...