ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,917, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).

"Rotation detection device, rotation detection method, and rotation detection program" was invented by Jumpei Fujii (Nagano, Japan), Juichi Uno (Nagano, Japan) and Haruka Miyaji (Nagano, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotation detection device includes: a first comparator configured to generate a first digital signal that indicates a magnitude relationship between a first voltage, which is output from a potentiometer in accordance with an amount of rotation of a rotating body, and a threshold voltage; a second comparator configured to generate a secon...