ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,237, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Magnetic sensor and magnetic detection system" was invented by Takafumi Tsushima (Osaka, Japan) and Kazuhiro Onaka (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic sensor includes at least one bias magnet, a first half-bridge circuit, a second half-bridge circuit, and a base member. The first half-bridge circuit includes a pair of first magnetoresistive effect elements to one of which a bias magnetic field aligned with a positive direction of an X-axis is applied and to the other of which a bias magnetic field aligned w...