ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,541, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Resonac Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic sensor" was invented by Daizo Endo (Tokyo), Hiroyuki Tomita (Tokyo) and Sho Tonegawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic sensor includes: at least one sensitive element including a soft magnetic material and having a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction and a uniaxial magnetic anisotropy in a direction intersecting the longitudinal direction, the at least one sensitive element being configured to sense a magnetic field by a magnetic impedance effect; at least one protruding portion including a soft magnetic material and protruding in th...