ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,228, issued on April 29, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).
"Rotation angle detector" was invented by Takumi Yoshiya (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotation angle detector includes a magnet arranged to rotate, and a magnetic detection circuit provided with a first pair of magnetic detection elements arranged to be in combination sensitive to a first magnetic field in circumferential direction to the first surface and to a second magnetic field in normal direction to the first surface and arranged away from the rotation axis, and configured to detect magnetic flux of the magnet. A second p...