US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Touch electrode architecture for high-transmittance touch screen" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,520, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Touch electrode architecture for high-transmittance touch screen" was invented by Christophe Blondin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ashray Vinayak Gogte (Campbell, Calif.), Ricardo A. Peterson (Fremont, Calif.), Warren S. Rieutort-Louis (Cupertino, Calif.) and Yuchi Che (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Touch electrode architecture techniques can be used to reduce or eliminate metal mesh within the one or more high-transmittance regions of a touch screen including one or more high-transmittance regions. In some examples, one or more optical devices can be...