ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,816, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Diagnosis of electrical failures in capacitive sensors" was invented by Constantin Crisu (Bucharest, Romania), Dan-Ioan-Dumitru Stoica (Buchare, Romania), Cesare Buffa (Villach, Austria) and Alessandro Caspani (Villach, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive sensor includes a first conductive structure and a second conductive structure that form a first capacitor having a first capacitance that changes in response to an external force acting thereon and includes a MEMS output configured to output a first sense signal representative of...