US Patent Issued to Allegro MicroSystems on Oct. 28 for "Hall plate current sensor having stress compensation" (Czech, Argentinean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,301, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).

"Hall plate current sensor having stress compensation" was invented by Roman Prochazka (Struharov, Czech Republic) and Juan Manuel Cesaretti (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for a voltage driven Hall plate current sensor integrated circuit (IC) package that includes a die including a Hall plate with a lateral epi resistor. A gm amplifier receives an output voltage from the Hall plate and a front end amplifier receives an output of the gm amplifier. A compensation circuit compensates for stress on the die t...