ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,018, issued on April 7, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Position detection for a rotation angle sensor" was invented by Henning Irle (Lippstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive rotation angle sensor and an associated system with a capacitive rotation angle sensor. The capacitive rotation angle sensor has at least one stator, at least one rotor, and an evaluation unit. The at least one rotor has a main body and multiple rotor vanes extending radially outward from the main body. Multiple first rotor vanes of the multiple rotor vanes are designed differently from multiple second rotor van...