ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,654,656, issued on June 16, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan).
"Inductive sensor and brake pedal device" was invented by Kenichiro Takenaka (Kariya-city, Japan), Yuki Matsunaga (Kariya-city, Japan) and Etsugo Yanagida (Kariya-city, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive sensor detects a position of a detection object relative to a fixed body, in which the detection object is either provided as (i) a rotating body rotatable about a predetermined axis relative to the fixed body or (ii) a movable body movable in accordance with movement of the rotating body. The inductive sensor includes a circuit board and multipl...