US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Thermal element for a current sensing structure" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,571, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Thermal element for a current sensing structure" was invented by Dietmar Spitzer (Volkermarkt, Austria), Giampiero Ciammetti (Villach, Austria) and Gaetano Formato (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a busbar to conduct a current. The busbar may include a sensing structure. The system may include a magnetic sensor to sense a magnetic field produced by the current in the busbar. The magnetic sensor may be arranged near the sensing structure. The system may include a thermal element in or near the sensing structure. T...