US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on April 22 for "Methods and systems for diagnosing magnetic sensors" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,081, issued on April 22, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and systems for diagnosing magnetic sensors" was invented by Harish Kumar (Frisco, Texas) and Srinivasan Venkataraman (Irving, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a reference voltage by periodically switching direction of current flow in a diagnostic sensor, where the reference voltage is a non-sinusoidal differential voltage of which an amplitude alternates between minimum and maximum values, and where the reference voltage includes a diagnostic sensor output voltage component responsive to an external magnetic field and a...