ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,645, issued on March 11, was assigned to Sung Ho Lee (Seogwipo-si, South Korea).

"Detectors consisting of multiple different areas and object detection devices using them" was invented by Sung Ho Lee (Seogwipo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention reconfigures the Capacitor Detect Area (CDA) constituting two columns to reduce the number of CDAs constituting one column and increase the number of CDAs constituting the other so that object separation operation is possible in the column in which the number of CDAs is increased."

The patent was filed on Nov. 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/505,129.

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