US Patent Issued to IEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS & ENGINEERING on April 8 for "Capacitive sensor device with selective loading and coupling measurement mode" (German, Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,404, issued on April 8, was assigned to IEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS & ENGINEERING S.A. (Echternach, Luxembourg).

"Capacitive sensor device with selective loading and coupling measurement mode" was invented by Thomas Faber (Schweich, Germany), Michael Puetz (Trier, Germany), Gianluca Favalli (Aubange, Belgium) and Baptiste Anti (Hettange-Grande, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive measurement circuit for a capacitive sensing device having a plurality of antenna electrodes includes: a measurement signal voltage source, a remotely controllable switching unit, and a current measurement circuit. The switching unit include...