US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Jan. 27 for "Position detection device and imaging device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,338, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Position detection device and imaging device" was invented by Kazuki Yoshino (Osaka, Japan), Yutaka Minami (Osaka, Japan) and Yusuke Nagae (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position detection device includes a motor configured to rotate a drive target, a periodic sensor configured to detect a plurality of periods included in a periodic change generated by rotation of the motor, an origin sensor configured to detect an origin of the motor in a rotation direction, and a controller configured to control the rotation ...