US Patent Issued to Allegro MicroSystems on Dec. 30 for "TMR sensor having magnetic field generation for pillar stimulation" (Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,611, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).

"TMR sensor having magnetic field generation for pillar stimulation" was invented by Tyler Daigle (Scarborough, Maine), Maxwell McNally (Manchester, N.H.), Steven Daubert (Bedford, N.H.) and Alexander Latham (Harvard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for a magnetic field sensor IC package having groups of arrays of TMR elements each having a pinning direction. An on-chip coil is routed under the TMR elements to conduct current for generating a magnetic field to stimulate the TMR elements. The device may be configured to sens...