US Patent Issued to Continental Automotive Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Method for measuring the angular position of a rotary shaft of a motor vehicle" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,165, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method for measuring the angular position of a rotary shaft of a motor vehicle" was invented by Dariga Toulon (Ramonville-Saint-Agne, France) and Thierry Chauchard (Pechbonnieu, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for measuring the angular position of a rotary shaft of a motor vehicle by a target fixed at a free end of the shaft and a position sensor mounted facing the target. The method includes the steps of generating a first sine signal and a first cosine signal characterizing the angular variations of the target relativ...