US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on July 29 for "Sigma-delta modulator for capacitive touch sensing channel" (Ukrainian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,098, issued on July 29, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sigma-delta modulator for capacitive touch sensing channel" was invented by Roman Ogirko (Lviv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a sigma-delta modulator coupled to a receive electrode of a capacitive touch screen sensor and including a first single-ended integrator and a second single-ended integrator selectively coupled to an output of the first single-ended integrator. A latch is coupled to an output of the second single-ended integrator and driven by a frequency modulation signal. A balancing circuit is sel...