US Patent Issued to Synaptics on June 9 for "Sensing device with segmented electrodes" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,747, issued on June 9, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sensing device with segmented electrodes" was invented by Vishal S. Shah (Fremont, Calif.), Fabrice Dayan (Lausanne, Switzerland), Prerak Kiran Baxi (Roselle, Ill.), Danny Joseph (Remaufens, Switzerland) and Guozhong Shen (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing device and method for driving segmented electrodes is provided. The sensing device includes a sensing area having a first sensing region and a second sensing region. The sensing device also includes a plurality of receiver electrodes comprising a first set of receiver electrodes dispose...