ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,164, issued on June 16, was assigned to CEBI ELECTROMECHANICAL COMPONENTS SPAIN S.A. (Villatuerta, Spain).
"Capacitive sensor for measuring the level of a substance in a tank" was invented by Jose Luis Landatxe Zugarramurdi (Villatuerta, Spain), Sergio Diez Garcia (Villatuerta, Spain), Enrique Breton Cristobal (Villatuerta, Spain), Javier Garcia Izaguirre (Villatuerta, Spain) and Jorge Machin Mindan (Villatuerta, Spain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive sensor for measuring the level of a substance in a tank is provided, which has a motherboard with a plurality of layers (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e), wherein each layer (1a, 1b, 1c, ...