US Patent Issued to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. on Oct. 27 for "Magnetic sensor system" (German, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,880, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. COMPANY (Limerick, Ireland).

"Magnetic sensor system" was invented by Jochen Schmitt (Biedenkopf, Germany), Enda Nicholl (Kilmallock, Ireland) and Christian Nau (Marburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example magnetic sensor system includes a magnet mounted on a rotatable shaft, and a magnetic sensing device in a vicinity of the magnet. The magnetic sensing device includes an angle sensor configured to detect an orientation of a magnetic field generated by the magnet as the rotatable shaft is rotated, a magnetic multi-turn sensor configured to detect...