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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2024
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Harish Govindarajan, San Jose, CA (US);
Yazan Z. Alnahhas, Stanford, CA (US);
Prabhakar Gulgunje, Cupertino, CA (US);
Shubhaditya Majumdar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Wei Lin, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Jianmin Gong, San Jose, CA (US);
Anael A. Guilmo, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yohai Zmora, San Francisco, CA (US);
Meng Zhang, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeffrey B. Fixler, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A touch screen device includes a transmitter optical fiber, optical transmitter circuitry, a receiver optical fiber, optical receiver circuitry, and cover material. The transmitter optical fiber and/or the receiver optical fiber include a respective core, a respective absorptive clad circumferentially surrounding the respective core, and/or a respective absorptive jacket circumferentially surrounding the respective absorptive clad.