ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,998, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Displacement sensor arrangement for determining the position of a body moving along a movement path in a vehicle" was invented by Stefan Kuntz (Flein, Germany) and Jonathan Haaf (Untergruppenbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A displacement sensor arrangement includes a magnet, a magnetic angle sensor, and a flux density sensor. The magnet is configured to generate, at least over a path of a moving body, a magnetic field having at least two mutually perpendicular components, one of which is perpendicular to the movement path. The magnetic angle s...