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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 16, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2025
Dell Products Lp, Round Rock, TX (US);
Rachid M. Alameh, Crystal Lake, IL (US);
Jarrett Simerson, Northbrook, IL (US);
Daniel L. Hamlin, Round Rock, TX (US);
Jace W. Files, Round Rock, TX (US);
Gerald Rene Pelissier, Santa Clara, CA (US);
DELL PRODUCTS LP, Round Rock, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method to detect user presence near and capacitive touch of a user at an exterior chassis housing of an information handling system that includes a hardware processor, a data storage device, and a power management unit (PMU) to provide power to the hardware processor and data storage device. The system includes an exterior chassis housing capacitive sensor to detect user proximity near or touch of on an exterior chassis housing surface of the information handling system and a perimeter capacitive sensor to detect user grip of the information handling system when a grounding source of the exterior chassis housing is removed during periodic, brief sense state time duration windows. A capacitive sensor microprocessor to periodically switch the exterior chassis housing capacitive sensor and perimeter capacitive sensor to a sense state to detect user proximity to, capacitive touch of, or grip of the exterior chassis housing.