ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,595, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH (Nuremberg, Germany).
"Apparatus and method for measuring a current flowing through a PWM-controlled inductive load" was invented by Ulrich Joos (Nonnenhorn, Germany) and Erwin Kessler (Bad Saulgau, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are apparatus and method for measuring electric current flowing through an inductive load energized by a half-bridge circuit with at least two semiconductor switches. The semiconductor switches are switched on and off in a complementary manner according to PWM. The apparatus comprises: a monitoring device determining t...