ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,638, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Magnetic sensor, method for designing the same, and assembly thereof" was invented by Hiroyuki Hirano (Tokyo), Teiichiro Oka (Tokyo), Ryoichi Menju (Tokyo) and Makoto Takahashi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When straight lines that are parallel to first to fourth long axes A1 to A4, that have the origin as their ends, and that pass through the first to fourth quadrants are defined as first to fourth imaginary lines B1 to B4, and the angles that the first to fourth imaginary lines make counterclockwise with respect to the boundary line between the first and fourth qua...