US Patent Issued to Synaptics on Jan. 27 for "Multi-frequency single-burst driving scheme for presence detection" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,912, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-frequency single-burst driving scheme for presence detection" was invented by Tracy Scott Dattalo (Los Gatos, Calif.), Guozhong Shen (Fremont, Calif.) and Xinyu Li (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes a plurality of sensor electrodes and a processing system connected to the plurality of sensor electrodes. The plurality of sensor electrodes includes transmitter electrodes and receiver electrodes. The processing system is configured to perform single-burst multi-frequency presence detection, wherein performing single-b...