US Patent Issued to IEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS & ENGINEERING on Nov. 25 for "Low-cost, high measurement speed capacitive sensing circuit for loading mode operation of capacitive sensors" (German, Luxembourger Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,983, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to IEE INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONICS & ENGINEERING S.A. (Echternach, Luxembourg).

"Low-cost, high measurement speed capacitive sensing circuit for loading mode operation of capacitive sensors" was invented by Laurent Lamesch (Reichlange, Luxembourg), Tobias Justinger (Hermeskeil, Germany), Michael Putz (Trier, Germany), Thomas Faber (Schweich, Germany), Christoph Wendt (Trier, Germany) and Johnny Lorang (Schieren, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An impedance measurement circuit for determining a complex impedance of a capacitive sensor having at least one sense electrode operable in loading mod...