ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,090, issued on June 17, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Magnetic angle sensor with symmetrical geometric arrangement" was invented by Joo Il Park (Sungnam, South Korea), Se Hwan Kim (Siheung, South Korea), Klaus Grambichler (Velden, Austria) and Gernot Binder (Klagenfurt, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The herein disclosed innovative concept concerns a magnetic angle sensor and a method for operating the same. The sensor includes a magnetoresistive arrangement and a magnetic source being configured to be movable relative to the magnetoresistive arrangement. The magnetoresistive arrangement incl...