ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,934, issued on July 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Touch-sensitive LED display" was invented by Dongeek Shin (Mountain View, Calif.) and Paul Joseph Silberschatz (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and media for sensing a touch on a display panel including an array of pixels. A method includes controlling first pixels to operate in an illumination state; controlling second pixels to repeatedly switch between operating in the illumination state and operating in a sensing state; generating sensing signals indicative of levels of light detected by the second pixels; detecting a touch...