ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,031, issued on July 14, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).

"Magnetic sensor device, and method of producing same" was invented by Appo Van Der Wiel (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wafer-level packaged magnetic sensor device includes: a first semiconductor substrate having a processing circuit configured for receiving a plurality of sensor signals, and for determining at least one difference signal, and for providing an output signal derived from said difference signal. A plurality of sensor substrates include a second semiconductor substrate with a first magnetic sensor, and a third ...