ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,241,762, issued on March 4, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Magnetic sensor" was invented by Yuki Ohyama (Fukui, Japan), Kazuhiro Kanda (Fukui, Japan), Masahiko Ohbayashi (Osaka, Japan), Hideyuki Tanigawa (Osaka, Japan) and Masataka Tagawa (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a magnetic sensor according to the present disclosure, each of a plurality of magnetoresistance pattern portions includes a first resistance portion and a second resistance portion that are connected together in series. One of two resistance portions connects a first wiring portion and a second wiring p...