US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 16 for "Tablet and tablet cover with configuration detection" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,320, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tablet and tablet cover with configuration detection" was invented by Tarakesava Reddy Koki (Telengana, India), Mallari Hanchate (Bangalore, India), Aiswarya M. Pious (Bengaluru, India), Vinay Kumar Chandrasekhara (Bangalore, India) and Antonio Shiu Kee Cheng (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments described herein provide for a tablet computer that can be configured to include a display, an antenna, a plurality of capacitance-based proximity sensors, and a configuration engine. The configuration engine uses the capacitance-bas...