US Patent Issued to SigmaSense on Sept. 9 for "Passive device with compressible pressure assembly for z-direction capacitance detection" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,562, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to SigmaSense LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Passive device with compressible pressure assembly for z-direction capacitance detection" was invented by Kevin Joseph Derichs (Buda, Texas), Michael Shawn Gray (Elgin, Texas) and Grant Howard McGibney (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A passive device includes a non-conductive housing including an upper and lower housing section, a conductive section housed in the upper housing section, and a pressure assembly housed in the lower housing section. The pressure assembly includes a compressible conductor, a mounting structure coupled to the compress...