ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,261, issued on March 25, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Inductive position sensor" was invented by Marcus Irrgang (Luenen, Germany), Johannes Nordhorn (Herzebrock-Clarholz, Germany) and Marc Seiffert (Lippstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive position sensor including a stator element having an exciter coil to which a periodic alternating voltage is applied and having a receiving system, wherein the signal of the exciter coil is inductively coupled into the receiving system. A rotor element influences the strength of the inductive coupling between the exciter coil and the receiving ...