US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on May 26 for "Proximity sensor and controller" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,310, issued on May 26, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Proximity sensor and controller" was invented by Takatoshi Kato (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Hiroshi Watanabe (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kohei Sugahara (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Koichi Inoue (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proximity sensor includes one or more detection electrodes to be capacitively coupled to an object, a contact electrode contactable with the object, an excitation circuit connected to one of the one or more detection electrodes or the contact electrode to supply an excitation voltage to the electrode to which the excitation cir...