US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Sept. 16 for "Absolute position measurement using single magnet strip" (Austrian, South Korean, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,484, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Absolute position measurement using single magnet strip" was invented by Joo Il Park (Sungnam, South Korea), Gernot Binder (Klagenfurt, Austria), Dirk Hammerschmidt (Finkenstein, Austria), Christoph Oswald (Munich) and Armin Satz (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An absolute position measurement system includes a multipole magnet comprising alternating magnetic poles extending along a multipole extension direction, the alternating magnetic poles generating a magnetic field. A magnetic sensor includes a first sensor element arrange...