US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on Sept. 23 for "Integrated circuit having current-sensing coil" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,381, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Integrated circuit having current-sensing coil" was invented by Alan Roth (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Eric Soenen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a first conductive path over a substrate, a coil structure over the substrate, and a ferromagnetic ring. The first conductive path is configured to generate a first time-varying magnetic field based on a first time-varying current. The coil structure is configured to generate an induced electrical potential responsive to the first time-varyin...