US Patent Issued to Semtech on June 17 for "Drift suppression method, proximity sensor and wireless device" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,092, issued on June 17, was assigned to Semtech Corp. (Camarillo, Calif.).

"Drift suppression method, proximity sensor and wireless device" was invented by Chaouki Rouaissia (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable device including a capacitive proximity sensor can suppress a drift superimposed to the capacitive proximity signal and the corresponding method. A processor generates a baseline value by integrating a series of values that are derived from the slope of the proximity signal, when the slope is within stated limits, or a fixed value outside of the stated limits."

The patent was filed on April 25, 20...