ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,710, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to IFM Electronic GmbH (Essen, Germany).
"Method for monitoring the function of a capacitive pressure measuring cell" was invented by Peter Kimbel (Tettnang, Germany), Manfred Maurus (Bad Waldsee, Germany), Fabian Kuhnhauser (Ravensburg, Germany) and Oliver Blankenhorn (Bodnegg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for monitoring the function of a capacitive pressure measuring cell (10) comprising a measuring capacitor (CM) and a reference capacitor (CR) as well as a temperature element, wherein a pressure measurement value p is obtained by forming the quotient ...