US Patent Issued to Synaptics on Dec. 9 for "Sensing system and method to detect moisture on a sensing region of an input device" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,380, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sensing system and method to detect moisture on a sensing region of an input device" was invented by Guozhong Shen (Fremont, Calif.), Guan-Hua Cao (San Jose, Calif.), Long-Ming Cheng (Guangdong Sheng, China) and Ching-Hsung Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for capacitive sensing is provided. The method comprises: obtaining, by a processing system and using a first set of electrodes from a plurality of electrodes of an input device, first resulting signals based on driving a second set of electrodes from the plurality of electrod...