US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Aug. 26 for "Closed loop, high accuracy hall effect sensor AFE with autozeroed switched-capacitor analog accumulator" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,197, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Closed loop, high accuracy hall effect sensor AFE with autozeroed switched-capacitor analog accumulator" was invented by Francesco Borgioli (Leghorn, Italy), Roberto Pio Baorda (Casarile, Italy), Paolo Angelini (Bologna, Italy), Danilo Karim Kaddouri (Pero, Italy) and Lorenzo Ercolini (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a system for measuring current, including an input inductor and a self-test inductor through which respective input and self-test currents flow. A Hall-effect sensor circuit senses magnetic fields around thes...