US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Dec. 9 for "Optical sensor in a button of an electronic device" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,939, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optical sensor in a button of an electronic device" was invented by Debanjan Mukherjee (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yanting Zhang (San Diego), Kevin Howard Drake (Campbell, Calif.), Seobin Jung (Redwood City, Calif.), Xiaoyu Guo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wen Shian Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chijer Wang (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yi-Nan Chu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes a housing defining an aperture extending therethrough. The computing device further includes a button that includes a switch and a body. The body is at least partiall...