US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Dec. 16 for "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for non-mechanical buttons" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,048, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Apparatuses, systems, and methods for non-mechanical buttons" was invented by Arnaud Deleule (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for non-mechanical buttons are provided. For example, a switch may be provided that includes a cavitied body of transparent material with a plurality of cavities sized to accept a target object and one or more time of flight sensors, including a first sensor positioned to detect the target object entering one of the cavities. The switch may generate an output signal associa...