ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,562, issued on April 8, was assigned to Cirque Corp. (Sandy, Utah).
"Multi-axis measurement with a capacitance module" was invented by Paul Vincent (Kaysville, Utah) and Jon Bertrand (Taylorsville, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may include a first set of electrodes; a second set of electrodes transversely oriented from the first set of electrodes; and a processor and memory, where the memory has programmed instructions to cause the processor, when executed to: activate a first portion of electrodes in the first set, measure a first resulting capacitance from activating the first portion of electrodes with at least some...