ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,918, issued on May 19, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Circuit assembly, method thereof and apparatus" was invented by Josef Janisch (Ilz, Austria) and Simon Hoefler (Ilz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit assembly is provided. The circuit assembly has a transmitter coil and multiple receiver coils for receiving signals induced by a magnetic field generated by the transmitter coil, and also has one or more movable metallic targets for influencing the signals picked up by the receiver coils. The receiver coils has a first receiver coil which is a sine-signal-output receiver coil and ...