ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,867, issued on June 3, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).
"Sensor with adjustable digital output signal resolution" was invented by Sebastian Schafer (St Leon Rot, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor integrated circuit includes a sensing element configured to generate a sensor output signal proportional to a sensed parameter, a front-end amplifier coupled to receive the sensor output signal and configured to generate an amplifier output signal, and a sigma-delta modulator coupled to receive the amplifier output signal and configured to generate a digital sensor output signal indicative of the sens...