US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Sept. 23 for "Systems, methods, and devices for sensor protection circuit" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,027, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems, methods, and devices for sensor protection circuit" was invented by Xiaowei Zhang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices provide protection for sensing circuits. Methods may include providing, using a microcontroller unit (MCU), a drive signal to a touch sensor via an asymmetric conductance element of a protection circuit, providing, using the MCU, a scanning signal to the touch sensor via an additional conductance element of the protection circuit, and receiving, at the MCU, a sense signal from the touc...