US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on July 14 for "Measurement device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,885, issued on July 14, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Measurement device" was invented by Bernhard Gleich (Hamburg, Germany) and Juergen Rahmer (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application describes embodiments including, e.g., a measurement device comprising: a casing, a first magnet arranged within the casing such that it is rotatable out of an equilibrium orientation responsive to an external magnetic torque acting on the first magnet, a second magnet to provide a restoring torque to force the first magnet back into the equilibrium orientation responsive to an external magn...