US Patent Issued to Sporian Microsystems on July 29 for "Method of shielding capacitive pressure sensor" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,418, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sporian Microsystems Inc. (Lafayette, Colo.).

"Method of shielding capacitive pressure sensor" was invented by Evan Pilant (Longmont, Colo.), Dale Schoonover (Louisville, Colo.), Jakob Oreskovich (Boulder, Colo.), Brittany McGrogan (Denver) and William VanHoose (Aurora, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of shielding a capacitive pressure transducer by positioning an insulated shield spacer between the capacitor electrodes, covering the two electrodes with an electrically conductive shield box, applying a sensor voltage from a first voltage source across the two electrodes, and apply...