ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,978, issued on March 24, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Magnetic sensor device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Kazuma Yamawaki (Tokyo) and Shuhei Miyazaki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic sensor device includes a stacked structure including a sensor substrate and a sensor element circuitry. The sensor substrate has a surface and a perimeter. The sensor element circuitry is provided on the surface of the sensor substrate, has a perimeter, and includes one or more magnetic sensor elements. As viewed in a plane parallel to the surface, a portion or all of the perimeter of the sensor element ci...