US Patent Issued to DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN on Sept. 15 for "Sensor device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,422, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBH (Traunreut, Germany).

"Sensor device" was invented by Daniel Auer (Traunstein, Germany) and Matthias Eckart (Anger, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device for torque measurement includes a substrate, a first conductor track, and a second conductor track. The first conductor track and the second conductor track are arranged on the substrate, and each of the first conductor track and the second conductor track includes at least one region having meander-shaped structures. The structures of the first conductor track and the structures of the second co...