ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,635, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Signal processing unit for inductive position sensor" was invented by Jurgen Peter Kernhof (Bissingen, Germany) and Josef Janisch (Ilz, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing unit for an inductive position sensor is provided. The inductive position sensor provides a first position signal and a second phase-shifted position signal, such as, a sine position signal and a cosine position signal. The signal processing unit has an integrator for integrating an integer number of periods of the first position signal respectively ...