ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,352, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Method for detecting the presence of a liquid" was invented by Stefano Paolo Rivolta (Desio, Italy), Andrea Labombarda (Milan), Carlo Guadalupi (Sedriano, Italy) and Mauro Bardone (Cava Manara, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to a method for detecting a liquid on a main surface of a body. The method is performed through a detection device including a processing module, a reference electrode at a reference electric voltage and a first sensing electrode on the main surface and configurated to detect an env...