ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,565, issued on July 21, was assigned to Alphacore Inc. (Tempe, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for signal sampling using a sampling array" was invented by Esko Mikkola (Mesa, Ariz.) and Phaneendra Bikkina (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for sampling signals are disclosed. In an example, a system includes a capacitive sampling array having an input interface, an output interface, and capacitive sampling channels connected in parallel between the input interface and the output interface, wherein each capacitive sampling channel has a channel-specific capacitor having a channel-specific capacitance, a reado...