US Patent Issued to Synaptics on Feb. 10 for "Capacitive detection of fold angle for foldable devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,581, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Capacitive detection of fold angle for foldable devices" was invented by Guozhong Shen (Fremont, Calif.) and Tom Vandermeijden (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a fold angle and an open or closed state of a foldable device includes: a plurality of electrodes, including a first set of electrodes for performing absolute capacitance sensing and a second set of electrodes for performing transcapacitance sensing, wherein each of the second set of electrodes is farther from a fold line of the foldable device than each of the ...