ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,150, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Sun Hydraulics LLC (Sarasota, Fla.).

"Systems and assemblies associated with a flexible printed circuit board with coils printed thereon for indicating position of a movable member" was invented by Jonathan Kaufmann (Sarasota, Fla.), Benjamin Kaufmann (Sarasota, Fla.), Alexander Flores (Sarasota, Fla.) and Allison Shaw (Sarasota, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example assembly includes: a housing; a movable member configured to move within the housing; and a coil flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) wrapped around the housing, wherein the coil FPCB comprises: at least one excitation co...