ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,392,422, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to BUERKERT WERKE GMBH & Co. KG (Germany).
"Valve having a position sensing means" was invented by Kersten Grosse (Ingelfingen, Germany), Michael Tischmacher (Ingelfingen, Germany), Sagar Agarwal (Ingelfingen, Germany), Marc Coster (Ingelfingen, Germany) and Martin Luschtinetz (Ingelfingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valve has a position sensing mechanism including at least one Hall sensor and a signal transmitter, wherein the Hall sensor senses magnetic field components in a first measuring direction and in a second measuring direction orthogonal thereto, wherein the two measuring d...