ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,840, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Current sensor and electric device" was invented by Takahiro Taoka (Miyagi-ken, Japan), Manabu Tamura (Miyagi-ken, Japan) and Akira Fukui (Miyagi-ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sensor according to the present invention that measures a current to be measured flowing through a busbar includes a sensing section that is capable of detecting a magnetic field generated by flow of the current to be measured through the busbar. The current flowing in the busbar is measured based on a change in the magnetic field detected by the sensing section. The se...