US Patent Issued to SICK on Dec. 16 for "Inductive proximity sensor for the detection of an object and method of detecting an object" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,256, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SICK AG (Waldkirch, Germany).

"Inductive proximity sensor for the detection of an object and method of detecting an object" was invented by Andreas Peter (Waldkirch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inductive proximity sensor and a method for the detection of an object having at least one coil, wherein at least one transmitted current pulse can be applied to the coil by a control and evaluation unit and the control and evaluation unit is configured to output an object determination signal, wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to scan at least one induced voltage pulse ...