US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics America on March 24 for "Inductive position sensor and method for detecting a movement of a conductive target" (Austrian, Bulgarian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,769, issued on March 24, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Inductive position sensor and method for detecting a movement of a conductive target" was invented by Josef Janisch (Ilz, Austria), Rudolf Pichler (Stallhofen, Austria), Juergen Kernhof (Bissingen, Germany) and Svilen Kastev (Sofia, Bulgaria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive position sensor and method for detecting a movement of a conductive target, having: at least a first and a second transmitter coil having the same shape and which are phase-shifted to each other, at least one oscillator for generating a first and a second tra...