ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,140, issued on July 28, was assigned to DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBH (Traunreut, Germany).
"Scanning element for an inductive position measuring device" was invented by Martin Heumann (Traunstein, Germany), Marc Oliver Tiemann (Tettenhausen, Germany), Oliver-Michael Sell (Traunreut, Germany) and Alexander Frank (Traunstein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scanning element for an inductive position measuring device includes a multilayer circuit board having a first receiving conductive path extending along a first direction and an excitation track. The first receiving conductive path is formed from a plurality of first conduc...