US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on April 15 for "Sensor systems, method for determining a position of a magnet system, an operating unit, and a computer program" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,711, issued on April 15, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Sensor systems, method for determining a position of a magnet system, an operating unit, and a computer program" was invented by Michael Ortner (Villach, Austria), Benjamin Kollmitzer (Portschach, Austria) and Mario Motz (Wernberg, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment of a sensor system includes a magnet system which is designed to generate a magnetic field. Furthermore, the sensor system includes a first magnetic field sensor which is movable in a first direction relative to the magnet system and has a first distance fro...