ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,210, issued on March 17, was assigned to BALLUFF GMBH (Neuhausen ADF, Germany).
"Method for localizing patterns in a signal of a position sensor, and position sensor or position measuring device using the method" was invented by Zoltan Kantor (Nemesvamos, Hungary), Attila Szabo (Iszkaszentgyorgy, Hungary) and Tobias Konig (Esslingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In the method and the device described here for operating an electromagnetic, in particular magnetostrictive, or acoustic position measuring device (10) having at least one position sensor (44), at least one position encoder (20) and a waveguide (14), said position...