US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 25 for "Hybrid Hall-effect/Magnetoresistance (MR) magnetometer with self-calibration" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,014, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Hybrid Hall-effect/Magnetoresistance (MR) magnetometer with self-calibration" was invented by Savas Gider (San Jose, Calif.) and Jian Guo (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid Hall/MR magnetometer with self-calibration includes a circuit coupled to a magnetometer and configured to determine whether the magnetometer is to operate in a sensing operation mode or a self-calibration operation mode. The magnetometer comprises a Hall sensor and MR sensor coupled to the circuit. In accordance with determining a sensing operation mode, the Hall sensor...