US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 28 for "Electronic devices with non-static object detection" (German, Austrian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,368, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with non-static object detection" was invented by Joonhoi Hur (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Andreas Menkhoff (Oberhaching, Germany), Bernhard Sogl (Unterhaching, Germany), Jochen Schrattenecker (Alberndorf in der Riedmark, Austria) and Rastislav Vazny (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) sensor disposed along a radio-frequency transmission line between a signal generator and an antenna. The VSWR sensor may gather VSWR measurements from radio-frequency signals transmitted ...