US Patent Issued to TURCK HOLDING on March 18 for "Proximity switch and method for detecting an object to be sensed" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,643, issued on March 18, was assigned to TURCK HOLDING GMBH (Halver, Germany).

"Proximity switch and method for detecting an object to be sensed" was invented by Alexander Magnus Makkinga (Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany), Oliver Marks (Duisburg, Germany) and Michael Faber (Luedenscheid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a proximity switch. The proximity switch includes an oscillating circuit. The oscillating circuit is configured to detect an object to be sensed. The oscillating circuit has a resonant frequency, and the resonant frequency is in a range of from 0.8 MHz to 20 MHz. The present disclo...