US Patent Issued to VDL ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES GROUP on Sept. 23 for "Capacitive sensor device and a magnetic bearing assembly with such capacitive sensor device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,241, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to VDL ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES GROUP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Capacitive sensor device and a magnetic bearing assembly with such capacitive sensor device" was invented by Ronald Jan Asjes (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Rick Baade (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Hubert Marie Segers (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates a capacitive sensor device for determining a distance between a rigid body and another rigid body in a system for contactless linear displacement along a linear displacement path of the rigid body relative to the other rigid body, the capacitive ...