US Patent Issued to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES on March 3 for "Sensing a linear displacement with a leaning magnet" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,080, issued on March 3, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES SA (Bevaix, Switzerland).

"Sensing a linear displacement with a leaning magnet" was invented by Yubo Zhou (Tessenderlo, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a first aspect, the present invention relates to a system for sensing a displacement (d) along a direction y of a magnet relative to a sensor, comprising: (i) a sensor for measuring a first magnetic field component Bu along a direction u, and a second magnetic field component Bz along a direction z, substantially orthogonal to u and y; and (ii) a magnet above the sensor in the z-direction, the magnet having a magne...