ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,467, issued on July 22, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method and system for manufacturing a sensor by means of marks and markings, and corresponding sensor" was invented by Herve Contet (Toulouse, France) and Norbert Genevois (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for manufacturing a sensor for motor vehicles, includes placing a camera facing the leadframe to generate a sequence of images showing at least one positioning reference system and at least one measurement cell or an integrated circuit, detecting the at least one measurement cell or integrated circuit in im...