US Patent Issued to BlackBerry on Oct. 20 for "Reusable magnetic sensor circuit and methods therefor" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,913, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).

"Reusable magnetic sensor circuit and methods therefor" was invented by Jason Wayne Jantzi (St. Clements, Canada), Yu Gao (Waterloo, Canada) and Mahendra Fuleshwar Prasad (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system comprising a magnetic sensor circuit for detecting a magnetic field, a magnet in close proximity to the magnetic sensor circuit, a wireless transceiver, and a controller. The controller coupled to the magnetic sensor circuit and to the wireless transceiver, and having a sleep operating mode and an awake operating mode, storing executa...