US Patent Issued to Maxim Integrated Products on Aug. 5 for "Solenoid system with position and temperature detection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,416, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Maxim Integrated Products Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Solenoid system with position and temperature detection" was invented by Onno Martens (Hamburg, Germany), Lars Larsson (Hamburg, Germany) and Christof Heilemann (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A solenoid system and method can include: providing an energizing voltage to a coil of a solenoid; providing an AC signal superimposed onto the energizing voltage; detecting current through the coil including an AC current amplitude induced by the AC signal and including a DC offset current amplitude; determining the AC current amplitude i...