G06F 2203/04105
Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch
Official title: Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
G06F2203/04105 (Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch) appears on 2,783 US grants and 3,356 published applications in this corpus.
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2012 | 20 | 75 |
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| 2017 | 181 | 530 |
| 2018 | 303 | 409 |
| 2019 | 460 | 341 |
| 2020 | 410 | 263 |
| 2021 | 271 | 250 |
| 2022 | 269 | 199 |
| 2023 | 186 | 168 |
| 2024 | 159 | 137 |
| 2025 | 136 | 102 |
| 2026 | 53 | 57 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Multipoint touchscreen3,397US 7,663,607 B2Apple Inc. · 2010
- Electronic device having display and surrounding touch sensitive bezel for user interface and control649US 7,656,393 B2Apple Inc. · 2010
- Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for messaging527US 9,959,037 B2Apple Inc. · 2018
- Dynamic input at a touch-based interface based on pressure355US 9,046,999 B1Google Inc. · 2015
- Data processing device comprising a touch screen and a force sensor349US 5,510,813 AU. S. Philips Corporation · 1996