US Patent Issued to IDT EUROPE on Aug. 5 for "Method for improving EMC robustness of integrated capacitive sensors" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,231, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to IDT EUROPE GmbH (Dresden, Germany).

"Method for improving EMC robustness of integrated capacitive sensors" was invented by Reinhard Kauert (Medingen, Germany) and Martin Schmidt (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for improving the EMC robustness of Integrated Capacitive Sensor systems with a sensor Signal-Conditioner (SSC). The SSC is connected with a capacitive integrating converter to convert a received signal into a bit stream. An oscillator provides a plurality of sampling frequencies. A counter connected with the capacitive integrating converter collects th...