US Patent Issued to Allegro MicroSystems on Jan. 28 for "Systems and methods for integrated shielding in a current sensor" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,040, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).

"Systems and methods for integrated shielding in a current sensor" was invented by Shaun D. Milano (Charlestown, N.H.), Bryan Cadugan (Bedford, N.H.), Michael C. Doogue (Bedford, N.H.), Alexander Latham (Harvard, Mass.), William P. Taylor (Amherst, N.H.), Harianto Wong (Southborough, Mass.) and Sundar Chetlur (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein are directed towards integrating a shield layer into a current sensor to shield a magnetic field sensing element and associated circuitry in the current sensor fr...