US Patent Issued to Dust on Nov. 3 for "Settled dust measurement device using capacitance" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,102, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Dust Co. Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Settled dust measurement device using capacitance" was invented by Robert W. Baxter (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes collecting native dust on a collection probe having a reading probe spaced apart therefrom; generating, by a capacitance sensor comprising first and second input leads that are coupled to the collection probe and the reading probe, respectively, a signal that is representative of a capacitance between the collection probe and the reading probe; and correlating the signal with a depth of the native dust on the collection...