ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,631, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Magnetic sensing device" was invented by Jochen Schmitt (Biedenkopf, Germany), Monsoon Dutt (London) and Stephen Morris (Basingstoke, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a magnetoresistive quadrant detector for use in a magnetic sensing device comprising a magnetic multi-turn sensor and an angle turn sensor, in particular, an angle sensor configured to provide 180deg absolute angle measurements, such as an anisotropic magnetoresistive (AMR) angle sensor. The quadrant detector is formed of at l...