ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,631,448, issued on May 19, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).
"Operator device and method for operating a capacitive sensor" was invented by Angelo Dati (Mailand, Italy), Burkhard Kuhlmann (Reutlingen, Germany), Joan Josep Giner De Haro (Stuttgart, Germany), Mirko Hattass (Stuttgart, Germany) and Thorsten Balslink (Kirchentellinsfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operator device for a capacitive sensor. The device includes an electronic device, by means of which an actual gap distance between the seismic mass and the at least one electrode and/or an actual variable for a sensitivity of the capacitive sens...