US Patent Issued to Apple on June 3 for "Touch sensor panel with reduced dimensions and cross-coupling" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,556, issued on June 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Touch sensor panel with reduced dimensions and cross-coupling" was invented by Karan S. Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Sung Yul Chu (San Jose, Calif.), Zhou Lu (Fremont, Calif.) and Jeffrey M. Weisse (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a touch sensor panel that includes a substrate that includes a bending portion, and a plurality of electrodes formed in a first layer on a first surface of the substrate, the plurality of electrodes forming first electrodes and second electrodes and the plurality of electrodes defining an active area fo...