ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,555, issued on July 29, was assigned to ISABELLENHUTTE HEUSLER GMBH & Co. KG (Dillenburg, Germany).
"Current-sensing resistor" was invented by Andreas Baum (Bad Endbach, Germany), Marcus Escher (Haiger, Germany), Arno Fey (Dillenburg, Germany), Wayne Lippert (Wetzlar, Germany) and Rainer Ostasch (Germering, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a resistor, in particular a low-resistance current-sensing resistor, with two connection parts made of a conductor material and a resistor element made of a resistor material. Furthermore, the resistor has two pairs of voltage measuring contacts for measuring the volt...