US Patent Issued to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES on March 18 for "Device and method for determining an orientation of a magnet, and a joystick" (Swiss, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,581, issued on March 18, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).

"Device and method for determining an orientation of a magnet, and a joystick" was invented by Gael Close (Bevaix, Switzerland), Nicolas Dupre (Bevaix, Switzerland), Jean-Claude Depoorter (Tessenderlo, Belgium) and Yves Bidaux (Bevaix, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining an orientation Alpha,Beta of a magnet which is pivotable about a reference position having a predefined position relative to a semiconductor substrate, comprising: a) determining at least two of the following magnetic field gradients: i) a first mag...