US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Dec. 30 for "Precise proximity object detection for capacitive sensing" (Ukrainian, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,682, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Precise proximity object detection for capacitive sensing" was invented by Vasyl Mandziy (Schyrets, Ukraine), Andriy Maharyta (Lviv, Ukraine), Oleksandr Karpin (Lviv, Ukraine), Mykhaylo Krekhovetskyy (Lviv, Ukraine) and Mark Healy (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a capacitive sensing circuit to receive signal values associated with a proximity distance to an object. A pair of low pass filters (LPFs) are coupled in parallel to the capacitive sensing circuit and include a first LPF configured with a low f...