US Patent Issued to Cooper-Standard Automotive on Sept. 23 for "Apparatus and method for magnetically sensing the position of a rotating device" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,910, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cooper-Standard Automotive Inc. (Northville, Mich.).

"Apparatus and method for magnetically sensing the position of a rotating device" was invented by Gary O. Klinger (Rochester Hills, Mich.) and David S. Malone (Attica, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for determining the position of a ring magnet fixed to a rotating device includes locating the ring magnet proximate to a sensor that is sensitive to magnetic polarities. The ring magnet includes a plurality of magnetic pole pairs of opposite magnetic polarities, having at least one pole pair larger than at least th...