US Patent Issued to Melexis Technologies on Aug. 4 for "Inductive position sensor" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,698,986, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Melexis Technologies SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).

"Inductive position sensor" was invented by Lorenzo Lugani (Bevaix, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A position sensor is for determining the position of a conductive target using a transmit coil and a plurality of receive coils. The receive coils may each include two strands and a strand may be obtained from a conversion of a substantially sinusoidal primitive function. The position sensor may realize a reduction of harmonics in signals from the receive coils."

The patent was filed on Aug. 15, 2024, under Application No. 18/805,982.

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