US Patent Issued to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES on Dec. 30 for "Device for opening/closing an opening element by detecting movement of a user's limb, and associated opening/closing method" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,935, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Regensburg, Germany).

"Device for opening/closing an opening element by detecting movement of a user's limb, and associated opening/closing method" was invented by Jerome Wroblewski (Toulouse, France), Corinne Paret (Toulouse, France) and Xavier Hourne (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a device for opening/closing an opening element of a motor vehicle by detecting movement of a users limb, the device including an approach and/or contact detection sensor including a single electrode and an analyzer for analyzing the variations in capacitance...