ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,486, issued on April 21, was assigned to BALLUFF GMBH (Neuhausen ADF, Germany).

"Inductive displacement sensor with a moveable measuring head" was invented by Andras Fodor (Totvazsony, Hungary) and Sandor Pali (Veszprem, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive displacement sensor having a magnetically permeable measuring head arranged displaceably and/or rotatably on an elongated support, having at least one measuring loop with a geometric shape changing in response to longitudinal/rotational displacement of the measuring head along the support, and having at least one exciter loop by means of which a magnetic flux can b...