US Patent Issued to Bayerische Motoren Werke on July 8 for "Sensor device for a hot zone of a vehicle production plant, and arrangement of a sensor device in a hot zone of a production plant for vehicles" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,460, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (Munich).

"Sensor device for a hot zone of a vehicle production plant, and arrangement of a sensor device in a hot zone of a production plant for vehicles" was invented by Daniel Stein (Leipzig, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device for a hot zone of a vehicle production plant includes a magnet element that is actuatable from an initial position into a deflected position when a vehicle component approaches the magnet element. An electrical circuit is open when the magnet element is arranged in the initial position and is closed when the magnet element ...