US Patent Issued to IEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS & ENGINEERING on April 22 for "TDR-based system for hand or body part positioning detection on an object, particularly on a steering wheel" (German, Luxembourger, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,817, issued on April 22, was assigned to IEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS & ENGINEERING S.A. (Echternach, Luxembourg).

"TDR-based system for hand or body part positioning detection on an object, particularly on a steering wheel" was invented by Baptiste Anti (Hettange-Grande, France), Laurent Lamesch (Reichlange, Luxembourg), Thomas Faber (Schweich, Germany), Thomas Stifter (Trier, Germany), Michael Puetz (Trier, Germany) and Andreas Fox (Freudenburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing system for hand or body part positioning detection on an object, particularly on a rim of a steering wheel, includes at least one electrical...