US Patent Issued to JFE STEEL on May 20 for "Sensitivity calibration method, inspection device, and magnetic sensor group" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,135, issued on May 20, was assigned to JFE STEEL Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sensitivity calibration method, inspection device, and magnetic sensor group" was invented by Yasuhiro Matsufuji (Tokyo) and Takahiro Koshihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inspection device includes multiple magnetic sensors, wiring for calibration and a controller. The wiring for calibration is arranged at the same relative position with respect to a magnetically sensitive portion of each of the multiple magnetic sensors. The controller obtains a first output value of each of the multiple magnetic sensors in advance. Before a predetermined portion of an el...