ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,285, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Differential drive and sense for touch sensor panel" was invented by John Stephen Smith (San Jose, Calif.), Amit Nayyar (Saratoga, Calif.), Joseph Kurth Reynolds (San Jose, Calif.), Sagar Rajiv Vaze (San Jose, Calif.) and Marduke Yousefpor (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Touch sensor panels (or touch screens) can improve signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) using touch electrode patterns for differential drive and/or differential sense techniques. In some examples, a touch sensor panel can include a two-dimensional array of touch nodes formed from a plur...