US Patent Issued to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES on June 17 for "Magnetic position sensor system with high accuracy" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,051, issued on June 17, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).

"Magnetic position sensor system with high accuracy" was invented by Bruno Brajon (Bevaix, Switzerland) and Bernhard Kleiner (Dresden, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position sensor system includes a magnetic source and a sensor device movable relative to the magnetic source. The magnetic source has a first track of alternating magnetic poles, and a second track of an equal number of alternating poles, but 180deg phase shifted relative to the first track. The sensor device is configured for measuring a plurality of magnetic field componen...