ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,501, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HORST SIEDLE GMBH & Co. KG (Furtwangen, Germany).

"Multiturn counter using magnetic domain wall conductors wound in the manner of closed loops" was invented by Roland Matteis (Jena, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a revolution counter using magnetic domain wall conductors which are wound each as a loop in a form of a spiral configured to be closed, in the connecting region the inner and outer loop section ends of the loop of a first magnetic domain wall conductor are combined and bridged by a second magnetic domain wall conductor which is connected to the magnetic domain wall conducto...