ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,489, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to INVENSENSE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for reduced noise capacitance-to-voltage converter" was invented by Wouter Bracke (Heverlee, Belgium), Bert Serneels (Heverlee, Belgium), Athanasios Sarafianos (Landen, Belgium) and Tim Piessens (Bornem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A continuous time single drive capacitance-to-voltage (C2V) converter can be employed for single sensor, balanced single sensor, or differential sensor. First sensor and/or second sensor can be employed to sense a condition. A capacitive bridge can comprise a first capacitive digital-to-analog-converter (DAC)...