US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Jan. 13 for "Package stress sensor with hall cancellation" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,551, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Package stress sensor with hall cancellation" was invented by George Pieter Reitsma (Redwood City, Calif.) and Kalin V. Lazarov (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor Hall plate-based sensor can provide information about package stress and can be substantially immune to the influence of magnetic fields. In an example, the sensor can include a Hall plate and an excitation circuit. The excitation circuit can provide signals to respective node pairs of the Hall plate. A measurement circuit can receive information about a fi...