US Patent Issued to Absolute Magnetics on Oct. 21 for "Contactless position sensor comprising a permanent magnet" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,281, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Absolute Magnetics AG (Buhler, Switzerland).

"Contactless position sensor comprising a permanent magnet" was invented by Richard Arlot (Bonnevent-Velloreille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contactless position sensor comprises a permanent magnet generating a magnetic field and at least one element for detecting magnetic fields (or magneto-sensitive element) in at least two directions. The permanent magnet is capable of moving in a movement direction and has a continuously variable magnetization in the movement direction. The variation in the magnetization has, along the different fiel...