ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,351, issued on June 30, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Optical sensing assembly and encoder utilizing vernier effect and multi-stage position synthesis" was invented by Horng-Jou Wang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Jeng-Ping Lin (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Syuan-Ren Lin (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Chieh-Huang Lu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Chun-Hao Huang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical sensing assembly includes a scale, a sensor, and a light source. The scale includes first and second pattern areas. The first pattern area includes first patterns periodically arranged in first and secon...