ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,211, issued on June 17, was assigned to ROSEN 2 Holding AG (Stans, Switzerland).

"Method for determining a materials characteristic value of magnetizable metal bodies by means of a micromagnetic sensor assembly, and corresponding sensor assembly" was invented by Werner Thale (Wallenhorst, Germany) and Sebastian Huhn (Lingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for determining at least one material characteristic of a magnetizable metal body by means of a micromagnetic sensor arrangement, which comprises at least one excitation coil having a magnetic core for signal excitation and at least one receiver. The bod...