US Patent Issued to TDK on March 18 for "Magnetic sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,580, issued on March 18, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic sensor" was invented by Takehiro Isoda (Tokyo), Norikazu Ota (Tokyo), Daichi Takano (Tokyo) and Kenji Inage (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic sensor includes a plurality of resistor sections each including a plurality of MR elements, and a plurality of protruding surfaces each structured to cause the plurality of MR elements to detect a specific component of a target magnetic field. The plurality of MR elements are disposed dividedly in first to fourth areas corresponding respectively to the plurality of resistor sections. The plurality of protrudin...