US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics America on Oct. 14 for "Inductive position sensor for detecting a linear or angular movement of a conductive target" (Austrian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,667, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Inductive position sensor for detecting a linear or angular movement of a conductive target" was invented by Gentjan Qama (Munich), Andreas Leo Buchinger (Ilz, Austria), Bence Gombor (Ilz, Austria), Rudolf Pichler (Ilz, Austria) and Harald Hartl (Ilz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive position sensor for detecting a linear or angular movement of a conductive target, including: a transmitter coil; a first receiver coil and a second receiver coil, where the first receiver coil and the second receiver coil have a linear or ang...