ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,545, issued on March 18, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"High accuracy non-invasive current sensor system" was invented by Kaushik Roy (West Lafayette, Ind.), Byunghoo Jung (West Lafayette, Ind.) and Chamika Mihiranga Liyanagedera (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for high accuracy, non-intrusive current sensing are provided. A system may include two magnetic field sensors configured for differential sensing. The system may further include frontend circuitry configured to remove direct current (DC) offset of the magnetic field sensors, upconvert the outputs of...