ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,695, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Active area routing for touch electrodes" was invented by Ashray Vinayak Gogte (Campbell, Calif.) and Christophe Blondin (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Touch sensor panels/screens can include metal mesh touch electrodes and routing in the active area. In some examples, the touch sensor panel/screen can include row electrodes and column electrodes disposed over the active area of the display. In some examples, the routing traces for the row electrodes and/or column electrodes can be disposed in a border region and some of the routing traces for...