US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on June 24 for "Stray field robust magnetic sensor system for detecting a state of a tiltable and rotatable object" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,695, issued on June 24, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Stray field robust magnetic sensor system for detecting a state of a tiltable and rotatable object" was invented by Stephan Leisenheimer (Oberhaching, Germany), Richard Heinz (Munich), Severin Neuner (Valley, Germany), Michael Ortner (Villach, Austria), Peter Leitner (Graz, Austria) and Florian Slanovc (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system may include an object, a magnet, and a magnetic sensor. The magnet may be connected to the object such that a center of the magnet is offset from an axis of the object. The magnetic sensor may i...