US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 25 for "Operation of self-capacitive sensor apparatus" (Illinois, Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,193, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Operation of self-capacitive sensor apparatus" was invented by Rachid M. Alameh (Crystal Lake, Ill.), Frederick Hershel Savage (Austin, Texas) and Jiri Slaby (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for use at an inventory location stowing items comprises an array of sensor elements. Each sensor element comprises a plurality of conductive elements that may be driven as a self-capacitance sensor. A set of one or more sensor elements may be associated with a particular lane. Based on the changes in self-capacitance values and the association, the l...