US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Feb. 4 for "Dual measurement for capacitive touch sensing and related systems, methods and devices" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,858, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Dual measurement for capacitive touch sensing and related systems, methods and devices" was invented by Feargal Cleary (Trim, Ireland) and Rian Whelan (Tara, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more examples relate, generally, to a method for capacitive touch sensing that includes: performing first self-capacitance measurement of an electrode of a touch sensor while a driven shield-signal is provided to at least a portion of shielding of the electrode; determining a first touch sensing result at least partially responsive to determining that...