ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,056, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA (Lippstadt, Germany).
"Rotary encoder" was invented by Jann Berhorst (Borchen, Germany), Sascha Kuhlmann (Geseke, Germany) and Clemens Massmann (Wadersloh, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A rotary encoder for a motor vehicle, construction machinery, agricultural machinery or special machinery, at least having a rotor with a rotor element mounted on it in a torsionally resistant manner, a sensor unit designed to determine an angular position of the rotor element, and a housing, wherein the sensor unit is mounted in the housing and the rotor is rotatably mounted on th...