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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 28, 2007
Divyasimha Harish, Union City, CA (US);
Divyasimha Harish, Union City, CA (US);
YPoint Capital, Inc., Fremont, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and system of thermal effect and off-center load compensation of a sensor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a sensor includes a first conductive surface and a second conductive surface substantially parallel to the first conductive surface, a processing and communication zone of the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface having circuitry to enable communication with an external system (e.g., using a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface) and a sensing area having partially a ceramic substrate surrounding a sensor surface and a reference surface of the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface. The sensor may include a set of electrical leads that enable the sensing area to communicate with the processing and communication zone and with external devices, and a guard ring surrounding the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface to minimize an effect of stray capacitance.