ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,665, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Corephotonics Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Hall sensor-magnet geometry for large stroke linear position sensing" was invented by Yiftah Kowal (Tel Aviv, Israel), Nadav Goulinski (Tel Aviv, Israel), Tal Korman (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Ephraim Goldenberg (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Position sensing units, comprising a magnetic assembly (MA) having a width W measured along a first direction and a height H measured along a second direction and including at least three magnets having respective magnetic polarizations that define along the first direction at least a left MA domain, a ...