ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,668, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nordic Semiconductor ASA (Trondheim, Norway).
"Energy supply circuit" was invented by Philip Corbishley (Trondheim, Norway).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit portion is provided which includes an energy harvesting device producing a DC output; a DC-DC converter having an input connected to the DC output of the energy harvesting device; an output for connection to a load; and a monitoring module including a non-ohmic semiconductor element. The monitoring module is arranged to derive information relating to an output current flowing from the DC-DC converter by measuring a current through th...