ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,937, issued on June 17, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya, Japan).
"Heater device" was invented by Kimitake Ishikawa (Kariya, Japan), Yusuke Tanaka (Kariya, Japan), Hideki Seki (Kariya, Japan) and Shuji Ito (Kariya, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A heater device includes a first detection pattern that is arranged on an insulating substrate and detects a change in capacitance between a first transmitting electrode and a first receiving electrode for detecting an object, a second detection pattern that is arranged on the insulating substrate and detects the change in capacitance between a second transmitting electrode and a sec...