ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,553, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Apparatus and methods for sensing" was invented by Markku Rouvala (Helsinki), Helena Pohjonen (Espoo, Finland) and Vuokko Lantz (Vantaa, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method wherein the apparatus comprises; a sensor arrangement comprising a plurality of sensor cells wherein a sensor cell comprises a transistor and a sensor coupled to the transistor; first selection circuitry configured to sequence a subset of sensor cells to which a gate input signal is provided, wherein the gate input signal is provided to the gate of the transis...