US Patent Issued to Synaptics on June 10 for "Capacitive knob sensing system and method using transparent sensing" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,750, issued on June 10, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Capacitive knob sensing system and method using transparent sensing" was invented by Kelvin Fong (Milpitas, Calif.) and Danny Joseph (Fribourg, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for using a transparent conductive material layer for a knob interface is provided. The system comprises: the knob interface comprising a fixed base and one or more knob interface electrodes; the transparent conductive material layer configured to electrically couple the subset of the plurality of grid electrodes to the one or more knob interface electrodes; and a pr...