ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,964, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Anomalous hall sensor and anomalous hall" was invented by Dieter Suess (Herzogenburg, Austria), Johannes Guettinger (Lind ob Velden, Austria), Armin Satz (Villach, Austria) and Sebastian Zeilinger (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an anomalous Hall sensor, including a Hall cross. The Hall cross includes a layer stack including a ferromagnetic layer. A first arm of the Hall cross formed in the layer stack extends in a first direction. A second arm of the Hall cross formed in the layer stack extends in a second...