US Patent Issued to Synaptics on July 8 for "Capacitive knob sensing system and method to detect initial states" (American, Japanese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,653, issued on July 8, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Capacitive knob sensing system and method to detect initial states" was invented by Kelvin Fong (Milpitas, Calif.), Tomohiro Hirakawa (Chiba, Japan) and Yan-Ju Du (Xiamen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided. The method comprises: obtaining, by a processing system and using a set of rotation electrodes that interact with the knob interface, first resulting signals and second resulting signals; determining, by the processing system, an initial state of the knob interface using the first resulting signals and the second resulting signals; ob...