US Patent Issued to Synaptics on Oct. 7 for "Capacitive sensor driving scheme for minimizing peak-to-average-power ratio" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,644, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Capacitive sensor driving scheme for minimizing peak-to-average-power ratio" was invented by Tracy Scott Dattalo (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a plurality of sensor electrodes and a processing system. The processing system is configured to: drive sensor electrodes of the plurality of sensor electrodes with sensing signals corresponding to a plurality of frequencies; adjust, while driving the sensor electrodes of the plurality of sensor electrodes with the sensing signals, instantaneous phase(s) of one or more of the sensing...