ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,338, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Child detection device for a child safety seat" was invented by Volodymyr Bihday (Lviv, Ukraine), Oleg Kapshii (Lviv, Ukraine), Andriy Maharyta (Lviv, Ukraine), Mykhaylo Krekhovetskyy (Lviv, Ukraine), Marian Muliarchyk (Maheriv, Ukraine) and Yaroslav Berko (Zhovkva, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A child detection device for a child safety seat for an automobile according to an example includes a plurality of sensors to be positioned on the child safety seat, wherein the plurality of sensors includes at least one capacitive sensor to gene...