ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,462, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SigmaSense LLC (Austin, Texas).
"Drive sense circuit with transient suppression" was invented by Phuong Huynh (Fairfax, Va.) and Patrick Troy Gray (Cedar Park, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes providing, by a signal source circuit of a sensing circuit, a signal to a sensor via a conductor. When the sensor is exposed to a condition and is receiving the signal, an electrical characteristic of the sensor affects the signal. The signal includes at least one of: a direct current (DC) component and an oscillating component. When the sensing circuit is in a noisy environment, tra...