US Patent Issued to Apple on June 10 for "System and machine learning method for separating noise and signal in multitouch sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,996, issued on June 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and machine learning method for separating noise and signal in multitouch sensors" was invented by Lichen Wang (San Jose, Calif.), Behrooz Shahsavari (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Hojjat Seyed Mousavi (San Jose, Calif.), Nima Ferdosi (San Jose, Calif.) and Baboo V. Gowreesunker (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, touch data can include noise. Machine learning techniques, such as gated recurrent units and convolutional neural networks can be used to mitigate noise present in touch data. In some examples, a gated recurrent u...