US Patent Issued to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES on Sept. 9 for "Self-capacitive sensor apparatus" (Illinois, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,228, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).

"Self-capacitive sensor apparatus" was invented by Rachid M. Alameh (Crystal Lake, Ill.), Frederick Hershel Savage (Austin, Texas) and Jiri Slaby (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for use at an inventory location stowing items comprises an array of sensor elements. Each sensor element comprises a plurality of conductive elements that are driven as a self-capacitance sensor. Based on changes in capacitance values, interactions between a lane and user may be determined. The conductive elements may be selectively addressed to provide various ...