{"id":332757,"date":"2010-02-17T12:12:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5473866"},"modified":"2010-02-17T12:12:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T17:12:39","slug":"apple-now-has-a-patent-on-their-capacitive-multitouch-displays-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/332757","title":{"rendered":"Apple Now Has a Patent on Their Capacitive Multitouch Displays [Patents]"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>This can’t be good for anyone but Apple—a patent app filed in 2004 has been granted for their capacitive multitouch display.<\/p>\n

The patent is not necessarily all-encompassing, but it appears to be quite<\/em> encompassing. The abstract explains the patent generally addresses:<\/p>\n

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“A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time…”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Apple’s touchscreen is still the best in the entire smartphone market<\/a>, and while the implications of this patent are still unclear, it’s certainly hard to imagine it helping any other companies close that gap. [freepatentsonline<\/a> via Engadget<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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This can’t be good for anyone but Apple—a patent app filed in 2004 has been granted for their capacitive multitouch display. The patent is not necessarily all-encompassing, but it appears to be quite encompassing. The abstract explains the patent generally addresses: “A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}