ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,498, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA INC. (Plano, Texas) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).
"Magnetic field sensor cell and array" was invented by Paul Donald Schmalenberg (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Ercan Mehmet Dede (Ann Arbor, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology provides for a magnetic field sensor cell including a color center arranged in a substrate, where the color center includes single-defect photon emitters, and a plurality of sector-shaped slices provided on the substrate, where each sector-shaped slice includes a body having a transparent material havin...