ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,683, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Single-capacitor inductive sense systems" was invented by Jason L. Wardlaw (Austin, Texas), Michael A. Kost (Cedar Park, Texas), Anthony S. Doy (Los Gatos, Calif.), Tejasvi Das (Austin, Texas), Siddharth Maru (Austin, Texas), Xin Zhao (Austin, Texas), Matthew Beardsworth (Austin, Texas) and Bruce E. Duewer (Round Rock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include an array of sensor elements, the array of sensor elements each comprising a first type of passive reactive element, a second type of passive reactive element electrically coupled to the ...