US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Method for determining the angular position of a shaft of a motor vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,966, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for determining the angular position of a shaft of a motor vehicle" was invented by Dariga Toulon (Toulouse, France) and Thierry Chauchard (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the angular position of a shaft of a motor vehicle. The method includes calculating the mean angular resolution; calculating the time at which the cosine signal passes through zero; using the time at which the sine signal passes through zero and the mean angular resolution; determining the measured angle at the calcula...