US Patent Issued to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES on April 29 for "Force sensing scale with target" (Swiss, Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,233, issued on April 29, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).

"Force sensing scale with target" was invented by Gael Close (Bevaix, Switzerland), Jerome Degois (Paris la Defense, France), Nicolas Dupre (Bevaix, Switzerland), Theo Le Signor (Bevaix, Switzerland) and Tim Vangerven (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A weight sensor comprises a sensing system including a target piece and a sensing element, configured to provide changes of a magnetic field, being generated by motion of the target piece. The sensing element senses these changes and provides a signal representative of the position ...