ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,427, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).
"Controller area network (CAN) transmitter" was invented by Thomas Ross (West Lothian, Great Britain) and James McIntosh (East Lothian, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CAN transmitter includes an output branch, a replica branch including a replica of the output branch, and a feedback network. The output branch includes a first resistive element controlled by a first bias voltage and a second resistive element controlled by a second bias voltage. The replica branch has a feedback node that is replicated at a midpoint between the CANH bu...