US Patent Issued to Apple on March 25 for "Fabric-covered electronic device with touch sensor" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,052, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Fabric-covered electronic device with touch sensor" was invented by Zhengyu Li (Shanghai), Elvis M. Kibiti (San Jose, Calif.), Ming Gao (Shanghai), Qiliang Xu (Alamo, Calif.) and Chen Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device such as a speaker device may have a curved housing characterized by a vertical longitudinal axis. A layer of fabric may cover the curved housing. A touch sensor may be used to detect touch input on the layer of fabric. The touch sensor may include capacitive touch sensor electrodes including drive lines and sense...