ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,364, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Hilti AG (Schaan, Liechtenstein).
"Device and method for determining a reference curve for the rotational position of a rotary component" was invented by Sasha Lukic (Buchs, Switzerland), Nenad Mitic (Pancevo, Serbia) and Djordje Radivojevic (Beograd, Serbia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for determining a reference curve for a rotational position of a rotary component rotatable about an axis of rotation. An encoder disk is connected to the rotary component and is rotatable about the axis of rotation where the encoder disk is circular and has a periodic outer contour with periods. A ...