US Patent Issued to Mitutoyo on May 26 for "Sensing winding configuration for inductive position encoder" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,638,308, issued on May 26, was assigned to Mitutoyo Corp. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).

"Sensing winding configuration for inductive position encoder" was invented by Ted Staton Cook (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive position encoder includes a scale, detector, and signal processor. The scale includes a periodic pattern of signal modulating elements (SME) arranged along a measuring axis (MA) with spatial wavelength W1. The detector comprises sensing elements and a field generating coil that generates changing magnetic flux. The sensing elements comprise conductive loops that provide detector signals responsive to a loc...