ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,328, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Magnetic sensor, position detector including the same, and method of manufacturing magnetic sensor" was invented by Daisuke Nakamura (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Takahiro Ibusuki (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output value of a magnetic sensor when an intensity of a signal magnetic field is zero is displaced from zero due to a difference between a magnetization state of magnetized fixed layers of magnetoresistance effect stacks in each of a first magnetoresistance effect element and a fourth magnetoresistance effect element and a m...