US Patent Issued to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES on July 29 for "Magnetic position sensor system, method and device with error detection" (Swiss, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,379, issued on July 29, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).

"Magnetic position sensor system, method and device with error detection" was invented by Gael Close (Bevaix, Switzerland), Eric Lahaye (Tessenderlo, Belgium) and Lionel Tombez (Bevaix, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of determining a position of a sensor device relative to a magnetic source, includes: a) determining a first and a second magnetic field component at a first sensor location; b) determining a third and a fourth magnetic field component at a second sensor location; c) determining a first difference of the first and th...