ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,647, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to control cross-talk of an optical fiber-based sensing module" was invented by Harish Govindarajan (San Jose, Calif.), Yazan Z. Alnahhas (Stanford, Calif.), Prabhakar Gulgunje (Cupertino, Calif.), Shubhaditya Majumdar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wei Lin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jianmin Gong (San Jose, Calif.), Anael A. Guilmo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yohai Zmora (San Francisco), Meng Zhang (San Diego) and Jeffrey B. Fixler (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch screen device includes a transmitter optical fiber, optical transmitter...