ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,668, issued on Oct. 14, 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.), Rodrigo Cuba (Los Angeles) 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 driver device having first input configured to receive clock signal, second input configured to receive charging voltage, third input configured to receive common-mode voltage, and output; first capacitor configured to be sensed, having first terminal connected to output of driver dev...