ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,038, issued on March 11, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Hall sensor, method for calibrating a hall sensor, and calibration apparatus for a hall sensor" was invented by Benjamin Kollmitzer (Portschach am Worther See, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Hall sensor is disclosed. The Hall sensor comprises a first Hall element, configured to detect a component of a magnetic field in a first direction a using a sensitive area of the first Hall element. The Hall sensor further comprises a second Hall element, configured to detect a component of the magnetic field in a second direction b using a sensit...