ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,255, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).
"Current sensor system" was invented by Loic Andre Messier (Vanzy, France), Simon E. Rock (Heidelberg, Germany) and Yannick Vuillermet (La Motte Servolex, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, including: one or more first conductive layers; a plurality of second conductive layers that are electrically coupled to the first conductive layers, the first conductive layers and the second conductive layers being arranged to form a conductor, the first conductive layers being arranged to define a rift in the conductor, the rift being formed by u...