US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 28 for "Piezoelectric transducers for detection of touch on a surface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,661, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Piezoelectric transducers for detection of touch on a surface" was invented by Supratik Datta (Saratoga, Calif.), John K. Frankovich (Alameda, Calif.), Ehsan Khajeh (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Omid Mahdavipour (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of the disclosure are directed to the use of one or more piezoelectric (PE) transducers for detecting one or more touches on a surface. In some embodiments, the one or more PE transducers can complement a capacitive touch sensor array and provide a confirmation that a touch has in fact occurred, and can...