US Patent Issued to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. on Nov. 3 for "Magnetic multi-turn sensor" (Irish, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,166, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. COMPANY (County Limerick, Ireland).

"Magnetic multi-turn sensor" was invented by Jan Kubik (Limerick, Ireland), Jochen Schmitt (Biedenkopf, Germany) and Fernando Franco (Limerick, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide a magnetoresistive track for use in a magnetic multi-turn sensor, the magnetoresistive track comprising one or more looped sections. The looped sections can include a crossing where the magnetoresistive track crosses itself at substantially 90 degrees. In some cases, the looped portions may be further pro...