US Patent Issued to NCTE on July 29 for "Torque measurement at a disk" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,424, issued on July 29, was assigned to NCTE AG (Oberhaching, Germany).

"Torque measurement at a disk" was invented by Robert Mutz (Grunwald, Germany), Florian Eckschlager (Riemerling, Germany) and Bernhard Mayr (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A torque sensor includes a disk comprising a magnetostrictive, magnetically biased, or magnetizable material, and a magnetic field sensor assembly. A torque acting about an axis of rotation of the disk can be applied to the disk and the magnetostrictive material is configured to generate a magnetic field outside the disk that changes dependent on the effective torque. The magnetic field ...