ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,838, issued on July 14, was assigned to Mitutoyo Corp. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).

"Inductive position transducer system with impedance circuit portion" was invented by Bjorn Erik Bertil Jansson (Snohomish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive position transducer system is provided, including an inductive position transducer and one or more sensing circuit portions. Each sensing circuit portion is connected to first and second sensing coil terminals and is configured to receive a signal from a respective sensing coil and comprises an impedance circuit portion and an input circuit portion (e.g., of an ASIC). The impedance circ...