US Patent Issued to MOTX on Feb. 17 for "High resolution absolute vector encoder" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,748, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to MOTX Ltd. (Givat Shmuel, Israel).

"High resolution absolute vector encoder" was invented by Yves Villaret (Hadera, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-resolution encoder device to measure and retrievably encode the relative position of a first part P with a second part S comprises sensible elements on part P, said sensible elements providing a variable property for sensing, such that said variable property varies over a length of said part P, a number n of sensors for sensing said variable property, said sensors being separate from each other and disposed on part S, said sensors config...