US Patent Issued to Raytheon on Jan. 13 for "Low power capacitor sensor array" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,689, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Low power capacitor sensor array" was invented by Krishna Shivaram (Torrance, Calif.), Phung N. Phan (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Bronson Riley Edralin (Carson, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive sensor and capacitive sensing method including a driver device having a first input configured to receive a clock signal, a second input configured to receive a charging voltage, a third input configured to receive a common-mode voltage, and an output; a first capacitor configured to be sensed, having a first terminal connected to the output of the driver de...