ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,551, issued on July 1, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Contactless magnetic sensing trigger system" was invented by Sebastian Ladurner (Feldkirchen-Westerham, Germany), Richard Heinz (Munich), Sigmund Zaruba (Unterhaching, Germany) and Severin Neuner (Valley, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system may include a magnet arranged such that a linear position of the magnet corresponds to a position of a trigger element on a substantially linear trajectory, and such that an angular position of the magnet corresponds to a selected position of a selection element, the selected position being one...