US Patent Issued to TDK on Aug. 18 for "Magnetic sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,487, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic sensor" was invented by Takehiro Isoda (Tokyo) and Norikazu Ota (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic sensor includes a plurality of MR elements, a plurality of yokes each including a portion long in a first direction, and a plurality of shields each including a portion long in a second direction. The plurality of MR elements include a plurality of first specific elements. The plurality of yokes include a plurality of yoke pairs each including one of the plurality of first specific elements. The plurality of shields include a plurality of shield pairs eac...