ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,854, issued on March 11, was assigned to SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Attleboro, Mass.).
"Inductive position sensor" was invented by James M. Maloof (Westwood, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses to obtain increased performance and differentiation for an inductive position sensor through non-disruptive placement of multiloop coil interconnects are disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a sense element includes at least one transmit coil and a first receive coil that includes a first plurality of arrayed loops. In this embodiment, two or more of the first plurality of arrayed loops are phase blended. The sense ...