ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,245, issued on May 20, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"On-chip current sensor" was invented by Guha Lakshmanan (Karnataka, India), Rakesh Hariharan (Karnataka, India) and Lakshmanan Balasubramanian (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaged electronic device has a die with a load circuit, a resistor and an analog to digital converter (ADC). The resistor is coupled between a supply node of the die and a power input of the load circuit. The ADC has a first input coupled to a first terminal of the resistor, and a second input coupled to a second terminal of the resistor to measure a voltage across the ...