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. 2023 Jul 7;23(13):6237. doi: 10.3390/s23136237

Table 8.

The distribution of the use of encoders in the patents on the Patent-Scope platform, where P represents the total number of patents, and N is the number of patents that use the respective sensor.

Type of Sensor P = 27
Encoder, (N) 9
Encoder (angle) (N) 6
Encoder (unspecified type) (N) 2
Encoder (linear, rotary) (N) 0
Encoder (magnetic, photoelectric) (N) 0
Encoder (incremental, absolute (N) 1