H03K 17/955
Using a capacitive detector
Official title: using a capacitive detector
H03K17/955 (Using a capacitive detector) appears on 1,078 US grants and 1,124 published applications in this corpus.
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- Latest grant
- 29 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Systems and methods for capacitive sensing with secondary electrodes exposed to electric fields from a primary electrode18 Aug 2026US 12,710,848 B2Joyson Safety Systems Acquisition LLC
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- Embedded sensors23 Jun 2026US 12,663,295 B2Ohio State Innovation Foundation
- Sensor drive device and method for operating a capacitive sensor13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235420 A1
- Electronic device user interface13 Aug 2026US 2026/0238209 A1Azoteq Holdings Limited
- Skin detection using voltage representations of frequencies23 Jul 2026US 2026/0211502 A1Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
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- Object detection system30 Apr 2026US 2026/0118515 A1Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Differential touch sensor and control circuit therefor916US 6,310,611 B1Touchsensor Technologies, LLC · 2001
- Time domain capacitive field detector800US 5,730,165 A1998
- Capacitive sensor and array762US 6,452,514 B12002
- Touch sensor and control circuit therefor717US 5,594,222 AIntegrated Controls · 1997
- Capacitive field sensor with sigma-delta modulator414US 8,089,289 B1Cypress Semiconductor Corporation · 2012