ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,270,887, issued on April 8, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).

"Auto-calibration for coreless current sensors" was invented by Yannick Vuillermet (La Motte-Servolex, France), Loic Andre Messier (Vanzy, France), Simon E. Rock (Heidelberg, Germany), Maxwell McNally (Manchester, N.H.), Alexander Latham (Harvard, Mass.) and Andreas P. Friedrich (Metz-Tessy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Auto-calibrating current sensor integrated circuits (ICs) are configured for mounting at a position relative to a conductor. The auto-calibrating current sensor ICs can include a plurality of magnetic field sensing elements d...