US Patent Issued to AUDI on July 14 for "Encoder wheel for use in an internal combustion engine" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,911, issued on July 14, was assigned to AUDI AG (Ingolstadt, Germany).

"Encoder wheel for use in an internal combustion engine" was invented by Rolf Karcher (Neckarsulm, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An encoder wheel for an internal combustion engine, having six indicator elements, which are arranged spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction with respect to a rotational axis of the encoder wheel on a main body of the encoder wheel. Flanks arranged in the same direction of the indicator elements are arranged equidistantly to one another in the circumferential direction. The indicator elements each have on...