ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,294, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH (Hannover, Germany).

"Current sensor" was invented by Soren Lehmann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Michael Irsigler (Regensburg, Germany), Anjana Gopinath (Maruthi Nagar, India), Wolfgang Weigert (Tegernheim, Germany) and Manfred Frimberger (Ergoldsbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sensor with an electrical conductor which has a first connection and a second connection for contacting a power circuit of a vehicle, and with a first and a second current measurement device for detecting at least one measurement value for the current flowi...