ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,920, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).
"Capacitive reading device for a pointer instrument" was invented by Stefan Klehr (Rheinzabern, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive reading device for a pointer instrument, wherein n radial electrodes alternating with radial counter electrodes are arranged opposite the pointer instrument in an arc to capacitively detect the position of a rotating pointer of the pointer instrument, where the counter electrodes are electrically connected to one another and connected to a first measurement connection of a capacitance digital converter, the n electrodes are connec...