US Patent Issued to Semtech on Nov. 18 for "Capacitive sensor device with drift compensation" (Swiss, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,185, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Semtech Corp. (Camarillo, Calif.).

"Capacitive sensor device with drift compensation" was invented by Chaouki Rouaissia (Neuchatel, Switzerland), Sebastien Grisot (Bourdry, Switzerland) and Jerald G. Ott III (Escondido, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive sensor device with a capacitance-measuring circuit, a main sense input and a reference sense input, wherein the capacitive sensor device is configured to measure, using the capacitance-measuring circuit, a current main value of capacitance seen by the main sense input and a current reference value of capacitance seen by the refe...