US Patent Issued to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES on April 7 for "Magnetic position sensor system, device and method" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,017, issued on April 7, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).

"Magnetic position sensor system, device and method" was invented by Leon Denis (Brussels), Adrian Munteanu (Brussels), Illia Khvastunov (Tessenderlo, Belgium) and Kristof Coddens (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method of determining a position (f a sensor device movable relative to a magnetic source, or vice versa; the sensor device comprising at least two magnetic sensors; the method comprising the steps of: a) obtaining a plurality of magnetic sensor signals from said magnetic sensors; b) determining or estimating the positi...