Apple granted patent for a proximity-sensing touchscreen

January 27th, 2010 admin

Never say the USPTO doesn’t have impeccable timing: on the eve of Apple’s tablet launch (and on the very day we finally realized that we’ve been looking at the same set of Apple patent images in loosely-related filings since 2004), the Patent Office has granted Apple some 13 patents, including #7,653,883 for a proximity-sensing multitouch screen. That’s right, granted…


Originally posted on Engadget

 
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