ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,340, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Bourns Inc. (Riverside, Calif.).
"Inductive sensor for detecting a position" was invented by Sebastian Berner (Munich), Martin Wischke (Holzkirchen, Germany), Christian Prolss (Munich) and Hasan Coskuner (Rosenheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive sensor for detecting a position. In one example, the sensor includes an oscillator circuit which generates an AC voltage signal and couples it into an exciter coil, and a pair of receiving coils including first and second receiving coils which each form a repeating loop structure and whose arrangement forms a receiving geometry. Th...