ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,774,906, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and device for determining an angle difference" was invented by Benjamin Lechner (Pforzheim, Germany), Christoph Schuster (Stuttgart, Germany), Lei Chen (Stuttgart, Germany), Michael Mueller (Holzgerlingen, Germany) and Miriam Riederer (Fellbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method (100) and device for determining an angle difference (PhiOffs_opt) between a zero position of a rotor position sensor (210) of an electric machine (220) and an orientation of the permanent magnets of the electric machine (220), wherein the electric machine (22...