US Patent Issued to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES on April 14 for "Device and method for determining an orientation of a magnet, and a joystick" (Swiss, Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,794, issued on April 14, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).

"Device and method for determining an orientation of a magnet, and a joystick" was invented by Lionel Tombez (Bevaix, Switzerland), Nicolas Dupre (Bevaix, Switzerland) and Eric Lahaye (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining an orientation of a magnet which is pivotable about a reference position having a predefined position relative to a silicon substrate, includes: providing a silicon substrate; determining a first/second magnetic field gradient along a first/second direction; determining a first/second angle...