ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,594, issued on July 22, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Current sensing" was invented by Kapil R. Sharma (Dalkeith, Great Britain), Kathryn R. Holland (Cedar Park, Texas), Matthew Petherbridge (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Peter Hsu (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and John B. Bowlerwell (Dunfermline, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to methods and apparatus for sensing current in a monitored current path, where the monitored current path is bidirectional such that current can flow in either direction along the monitored current path. A current sensor has first and second sense resisto...