US Patent Issued to LIKA ELECTRONIC on May 13 for "Position/displacement transducer apparatus, and related system and method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,158, issued on May 13, was assigned to LIKA ELECTRONIC S.R.L. (Carre, Italy).

"Position/displacement transducer apparatus, and related system and method" was invented by Ruggero Piva (Quinto Vicentino, Italy) and Marco Calabrese (Schio, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position/displacement transducer apparatus includes encoders arranged along a measurement path along which a position/displacement encoding periodic array is arranged, having contiguous elements with alternate dual characteristics. There is at least one transition region of discontinuity in periodicity of the periodic array and/or unreadable, the periodic array s...