ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,528, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cirque Corp. (Sandy, Utah).
"Optical pressure sensor of a capacitance module" was invented by Steven Varrato (South Jordan, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitance module may include a stack of layers, a capacitance measuring circuit disposed on at least on of the layers of the stack of layers, the capacitance measuring circuit defining a capacitance input sensitive area associated with a face of the at least one layer, an optical pressure sensor incorporated into the stack of layers aligned within the input sensitive area, and a controller in communication with the capacitance measur...