ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,875, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.) and COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Magnetic sensor device having an improved measurement range" was invented by Salim Dounia (Grenoble, France) and Claire Baraduc (Chirens, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic sensor device comprising a plurality of magnetic sensor elements; each magnetic sensor element including a magnetic tunnel junction including a reference layer having a reference magnetization, a sense layer having a sense magnetization and a tunnel barrier layer; the sense magnetization comp...