ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,054, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to AT & S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG (Leoben, Austria).

"Monitoring unit comprising an integrated magnetic field sensor" was invented by Gernot Schulz (Graz, Austria), Thomas Krivec (Zeltweg, Austria) and Johannes Stahr (St. Lorenzen, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring unit includes an integrated magnetic field sensor which includes at least one excitation coil and at least one sensor coil. Both coils are provided on one side of a first magnetic structure. The monitoring unit further includes a sensed element, which is associated with the integrated magnetic field sens...