ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,893, issued on July 14, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES NV (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

"Sensor configuration" was invented by Johan Vergauwen (Tessenderlo, Belgium), Peter Vandersteegen (Tessenderlo, Belgium), Appo Van Der Wiel (Tessenderlo, Belgium) and Ben Maes (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device for measuring a physical parameter. The sensor device comprises at least three sensing elements. Each sensing element comprises a first node and a second node. The first nodes of all sensing elements are connected together, and the second nodes are accessible to a readout circuit for measuring differential...