US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 27 for "Thin film capacitance sensor for proximity detection" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,289, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Thin film capacitance sensor for proximity detection" was invented by Charbel Khawand (Sammamish, Wash.), Andrew James Hillenius (Woodinville, Wash.) and Apoorva Sharma (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting proximity of a conductive object to an antenna element is provided. The system includes a cover layer including a thin film resistive element and cover glass, an antenna layer including an antenna element, and a dielectric gap layer including an electrically insulating material. The antenna element is con...