US Patent Issued to TDK on March 17 for "Magnetic sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,402, issued on March 17, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic sensor" was invented by Takehiro Isoda (Tokyo), Norikazu Ota (Tokyo), Kazuya Watanabe (Tokyo) and Hiraku Hirabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic sensor includes a soft magnetic body having a first end surface and a second end surface located on opposite sides, a first MR element located near the first end surface, a second MR element located near the second end surface, and a first lead that electrically connects the first MR element and the second MR element and includes a portion overlapping the soft magnetic body when observed in a second d...