US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on March 24 for "Identifying an object using capacitive sensing of predetermined spatial patterns of detectable elements" (Norwegian, American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,362, issued on March 24, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Identifying an object using capacitive sensing of predetermined spatial patterns of detectable elements" was invented by Daniel Bacon (Glendale, Ariz.), Rob A. Beuker (Southampton, Great Britain), Chad Solomon (San Diego), Johan Vaarlid (Trondelag, Norway) and Petter Diderik Breedveld (Trondelag, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some examples may relate to an object-recognition system. The object-recognition system may generate an object identifier when an object having detectable elements in a predetermined spatial pattern is in proximity to...