ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,441, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for determining a rotational frequency of a wheel" was invented by Jan Scheuing (Vellberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a rotational frequency of a wheel, in particular of a motor vehicle, with the aid of a rotational speed sensor including an encoder wheel assigned to the wheel and a sensor element assigned to the encoder wheel, the encoder wheel having impulse sensors that are distributed uniformly over its circumference at a distance from one another, whose flanks are detected by the sensor element ...