US Patent Issued to Semtech on March 3 for "Time-averaged proximity sensor" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,166, issued on March 3, was assigned to Semtech Corp. (Camarillo, Calif.).

"Time-averaged proximity sensor" was invented by Chaouki Rouaissia (Neuchatel, Switzerland) and Sebastien Grisot (Bourdry, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A proximity sensor for a portable connected wireless device generating an immediate proximity status signal (PROXSTAT, 310) that becomes active when a part of a user's body is close to the proximity sensor, an averaging unit (259) that may include a FIFO buffer, averaging the immediate proximity status flag in a predetermined time window, and a decision unit generating a time-averaged proximity st...