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Apple, who believes that everyone in the real world (see outside of Cupertino) has hands like a Simpson character, has been granted a patent for multitouch capacitive screens.
You can readt it here.
“A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time…”
We don’t know what exactly the patent entails as far as restriction on other multitouch devices, but in any case, this can not be good for the industry.
via Gizmodo [freepatentsonline via Engadget]
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Tags: Apple, displays, iPad, iphone, multitouch, patents
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Apple, who believes that everyone in the real world (see outside of Cupertino) has hands like a Simpson character, has been granted a patent for multitouch capacitive screens.