ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,934, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Huf Hulsbeck & Furst GmbH & Co. KG (Velbert, Germany).
"Sensor device" was invented by Igor Alexander Gorenzweig (Wuppertal, Germany), Steffen Leib (Ratingen, Germany), Yevgen Dementyev (Wuppertal, Germany), Sven Hild (Hagen, Germany) and Andreas Gornik (Gevelsberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a sensor device (100) for actuating a movable part (101), in particular a sliding door, of a vehicle (1), comprising: a capacitive sensor unit (10) with a plurality of sensor elements (11) for motion detection, in particular gesture detection, of a user to trigger openi...