US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on July 15 for "Integrated current monitor using variable drain-to-source voltages" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,152, issued on July 15, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated current monitor using variable drain-to-source voltages" was invented by Miguel Rodriguez (Santa Clara, Calif.), Suhas Satheesh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tezaswi Raja (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Nishit Harshad Shah (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuitry and a method of determining electrical characteristics of material local to a specific area of a semiconductor wafer is disclosed. In one embodiment, an IC is disclosed that comprises at least one processing subsystem and at least one integrated common current monitor (ICCM) locat...