US Patent Issued to Adrian Landman on Nov. 3 for "Sensor and sensing method" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,167, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Adrian Landman (Pretoria, South Africa).

"Sensor and sensing method" was invented by Adrian Landman (Pretoria, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a sensor (1) and more specifically, but not exclusively, to a motion sensor for sensing a position of a first moving part of a device relative to a second part of the device. The invention discloses a sensor (1) comprising a stationary magnetic field generator (2) for generating a stationary magnetic field, and a moveable magnetically conductive part (3), moveable to influence the stationary magnetic field, a differenc...