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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2012
Applicants:
Ozan E. Erdogan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Guozhong Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Syed T. Mahmud, Dublin, CA (US);
Jean Cauxuan Le, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ozan E. Erdogan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Guozhong Shen, San Jose, CA (US);
Syed T. Mahmud, Dublin, CA (US);
Jean CauXuan Le, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Maxim Integrated Products, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 27/26 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G01D 5/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 27/2605 (2013.01); G01D 5/24 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01);
Abstract
Capacitance sensing circuits, systems and method can include sample and hold (S/H) circuits that can retain analog values for one set of capacitance sensors, and sequentially convert such analog values into digital values while analog values for another set of capacitance sensors values are generated.