ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,301, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Integrated current monitor" 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. In one embodiment, the method includes sinking or sourcing current through a selected on of a plurality of devices under test (DUTs) on the semiconductor wafer, converting the current sourcing or sinking...