US Patent Issued to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE on Sept. 9 for "Omnidirectional rotational speed and rotational direction sensor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,151, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH (Munich).

"Omnidirectional rotational speed and rotational direction sensor" was invented by Christian Huber (Ludwigsburg, Germany) and Michael Hauff (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic-field (MF) sensor, including: a chip having first, second and third MF measuring-elements (ME) to output first, second and third MF signals, amplitudes of which are proportional to a MF emanating from a rotating-object (RO), in which directions of the normal vectors of the MF MEs are linearly independent; a signal acquisition unit to determine first/sec...