ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,397, issued on June 3, was assigned to INVENTUS Engineering GmbH (St. Anton i.M., Austria).
"Magnetorheological braking device, in particular operating apparatus" was invented by Stefan Battlogg (St. Anton i.M., Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetorheological braking device for setting operating states by way of rotational movements has an axle unit and a rotary body rotatable about the axle unit. The rotatability of the rotary body can be decelerated and/or blocked by a magnetorheological braking apparatus. A sensor apparatus has a magnetic ring unit and a magnetic field sensor for sensing a magnetic field of the magnetic...