US Patent 12123753 Capacitive sensor with temperature drift mitigation

A system and method for mitigating background capacitance and for mitigating the effect of temperature drift in compensation circuitry is provided. The system includes a plurality of sensor electrodes including a first sensor electrode and a second sensor electrode. The first sensor electrode is coupled to a first channel and the second sensor electrode is coupled to a second channel. The system includes a processing system configured to drive the plurality of sensor electrodes with a sensing signal; drive the first channel with a first compensation signal and the second channel with a second compensation signal; determine a first differential capacitance between the first channel and the second channel; drive the first channel with the second compensation signal and the second channel with the first compensation signal; determine a second differential capacitance between the first channel and the second channel; and mitigate temperature drift using the first differential capacitance and the second differential capacitance.