US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on June 10 for "Inductive sensing methods, devices and systems" (Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,467, issued on June 10, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Inductive sensing methods, devices and systems" was invented by Andriy Maharyta (Lviv, Ukraine) and Mykhaylo Krekhovetskyy (Lviv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method can include in a first phase of a sensing operation, controlling at least a first switch to energize a sensor inductance; in a second phase of the sensing operation that follows the first phase, controlling at least a second switch to couple the sensor inductance to a first modulator capacitance to induce a first fly-back current from the sensor inductance, the first fly-...