US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Architecture for differential drive and sense for touch sensor panel" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,045, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Architecture for differential drive and sense for touch sensor panel" was invented by Sagar R. Vaze (San Jose, Calif.) and Marduke Yousefpor (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Differential driving and/or differential sensing can reduce noise in the touch and/or display systems of a touch screen. In some examples, the touch sensor panel can include column and row electrodes routed vertically to a first edge of the touch sensor panel. In some examples, a touch sensor panel can be divided into banks. In some examples, the routing traces for rows can...