US Patent Issued to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES on Aug. 26 for "Device, method and system for determining position of a magnet" (Belgian, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,398,993, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).

"Device, method and system for determining position of a magnet" was invented by Jelle Vanolst (Tessenderlo, Belgium), Jerome Degois (Paris la Defense, France) and Nick Czarnecki (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position sensor device for determining a two-dimensional position of a magnet which is movable in a plane, and that generates a magnetic field; the position sensor device includes: a semiconductor substrate having a plurality of magnetic sensors configured for determining three orthogonal magnetic field components (Bx, By, Bz) ...