US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Jan. 13 for "Liquid tolerance using signal profile analysis for an array of capacitance sensors" (Irish, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,112, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Liquid tolerance using signal profile analysis for an array of capacitance sensors" was invented by Vasyl Mandziy (Schyrets, Ukraine), Oleksandr Karpin (Lviv, Ukraine), Priyadeep Kaur (Dublin) and Amitava Banerjee (Cork, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for implementing liquid tolerance for a touch device. A sensor array of the touch device is scanned to generate response signals. In response to a response signal exceeding a touch threshold, a signal profile analysis is performed. The signal profile analysis includes...