US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Sept. 16 for "Triggering multi-phase transmission pattern switching to reduce emissions in touch products" (Irish, Turkish, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,995, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Triggering multi-phase transmission pattern switching to reduce emissions in touch products" was invented by Revanth Bellamkonda (Cork, Ireland), Roman Ogirko (Lviv, Ukraine), Daniel O'Keeffe (Cork, Ireland), Edward Gerard O'Malley (Claremorris, Ireland) and Mehmet Vural (Ankara, Turkey).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a sinusoidal wave generator that generates, over a first analog line, an in-phase drive signal and, over a second analog line, an opposite-phase drive signal. A comparator has inputs respectively coupled to th...