US Patent Issued to Hella on June 16 for "Inductive linear position sensor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,152, issued on June 16, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).

"Inductive linear position sensor" was invented by Henning Irle (Lippstadt, Germany) and Sebastian Forst (Kamen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive linear position sensor, wherein the linear position sensor comprises a stator having at least one excitation coil and at least one sensor receiver coil, at least one movable element which is linearly movable relative to the stator, and an evaluation circuit."

The patent was filed on July 20, 2023, under Application No. 18/224,317.

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