US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Sept. 9 for "Ultrasonic touch sensor with water detection" (Romanian, Ukrainian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,578, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Ultrasonic touch sensor with water detection" was invented by Costin Batrinu (Bucharest, Romania), Vasyl Mandziy (Schyrets, Ukraine), Gheorghe-Iulian Chivu (Targoviste, Romania) and Victor-Valentin Mocanu (Braila, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic touch sensor includes a touch structure comprising a touch surface configured to receive a touch; an ultrasonic transmitter configured to transmit at least one ultrasonic transmit wave toward the touch structure; an ultrasonic receiver configured to receive ultrasonic reflected waves ...