US Patent Issued to Cypress Semiconductor on Dec. 16 for "Self-test for receive and transmit hardware functional safety associated with a touch panel or screen" (Irish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,418, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Self-test for receive and transmit hardware functional safety associated with a touch panel or screen" was invented by Sean O'Sullivan (Clonakilty, Ireland), Cathal O'Lionaird (Cork, Ireland) and Thorsten Piper (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a signal bus to carry a sinusoidal drive signal and receive (RX) sensing hardware, coupled to an electrode of a touch panel, including an attenuator configured to detect a touch signal from the electrode, a multiplexer coupled between an input to the attenuator an...