ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,350, issued on May 6, was assigned to BRP Megatech Industries Inc. (Valcourt, Canada).
"Magnetoelastic torque sensor assembly for reducing magnetic error due to harmonics" was invented by Jean-Francois Veillette (St. Boniface, Canada) and Serge Kaldany (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque sensor assembly including a shaft configured to receive an applied torque. The shaft includes at least one region being magnetoelastic and configured to generate a magnetic field in response to the applied torque. A plurality of sensors, circumferentially positioned around the at least one region, configured to generate a plurality of sig...