ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,376, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Positioning proximity sensor behind OLED display" was invented by Eliyahu Barel (Rosh-HaAyin, Israel), Ying Zheng (Sammamish, Wash.) and Eran Arbel (Netanya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed that relate to mitigating unintended OLED display emissions arising from a proximity sensor emitter located behind an OLED display panel. One example provides a display device comprising an OLED display panel, a proximity sensor having a proximity sensor emitter positioned behind one or more OLED pixels of the OLED display panel...