ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,814, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Cirque Corp. (Sandy, Utah).
"Continuous opening in a shield layer" was invented by Jon Bertrand (Taylorsville, Utah) and Paul Glad (Sandy, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitance module may include a capacitance electrode on a first substrate, shielding material disposed on a second substrate where the second substrate is aligned with the first substrate, an antenna where the shielding material is between the antenna and the capacitance electrode, and a continuous opening defined in the shielding material. The continuous opening may include a branching shape, the branching shape having ...