US Patent Issued to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC on June 23 for "Alignment direction detection device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,253, issued on June 23, was assigned to MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Alignment direction detection device" was invented by Jin Inoue (Tokyo), Yoshimasa Watanabe (Tokyo), Yasuyuki Okada (Tokyo) and Akira Hotta (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An alignment direction detection device includes an excitation coil to apply an AC magnetic field to a test object; one or more magnetic field sensors, each of which detects an inductive magnetic field caused by the AC magnetic field; a conveyance device; and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry performs band limitation on a distribution of the voltage outputted from each ma...