ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,247, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBH (Traunreut, Germany).
"Scale element for an inductive position measuring device" was invented by Martin Heumann (Traunstein, Germany) and Christoph Heinemann (Ubersee, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scale element for an inductive position measuring device includes a substrate on which a graduation track is arranged. The graduation track is formed along a measuring direction from a periodic sequence of alternately arranged electrically conductive graduation regions and non-conductive graduation regions. The electrically conductive graduation regions are for...