ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,911, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic field generator is configured to generate a magnetic field to be applied to the magnetic sensor. A conductor layer of the magnetic field generator includes a first end, a second end, a plurality of main wirings, a first sub-wiring, and a second sub-wiring. The first sub-wiring includes a plurality of first paths from the first end to each of the plurality of main wirings through a plurality of first coupling portions....