ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,000, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to THALES (Courbevoie, France).
"Capacitive displacement sensor system with interdigitated combs" was invented by Stephane Bouyat (Chatellerault, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive displacement sensor system with interdigitated combs, includes capacitive detection in a direction perpendicular to the surfaces of the combs facing one another, the combs being subjected to a sinusoidal movement in the direction, comprising: a device for converting the capacitance delivered by the sensor into a voltage; an analog/digital converter configured to digitize the voltage delivered by the conver...