US Patent Issued to JOHANNES HUEBNER FABRIK ELEKTRISCHER MASCHINEN on Feb. 3 for "Rotary encoder and method of operating a rotary encoder" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,835, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to JOHANNES HUEBNER FABRIK ELEKTRISCHER MASCHINEN GMBH (Giessen, Germany).

"Rotary encoder and method of operating a rotary encoder" was invented by Thomas Blank (Reichshof, Germany) and Simon Maiberger (Biebergemuend, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a rotary encoder (10) for a machine, in particular a hoist, crane or the like, and to a method for operating a rotary encoder, the rotary encoder having a rotary encoder shaft (12) which is connectable to a shaft of a machine for detecting a rotation of the shaft, the rotary encoder having a frame (11) which is mountable ...