ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,217, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).
"Configurable interface circuit" was invented by Aidan Cahalane (Limerick, Ireland), Alan Patrick Cahill (Limerick, Ireland) and Ahmed Mamdouh Badawy (Limerick, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a configurable interface circuit supporting a plurality of different selectable operational modes. In one example the interface circuit comprises a device terminal couplable to an external field device, a digital current path coupled to the device terminal, and having a first sense resistor, and an analog...