ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,660, issued on May 27, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Methods and apparatus to improve accuracy of current sense circuitry" was invented by Richeek Maitra (Bangalore, India) and Ganapathi Shankar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example circuit includes a transistor including a first current terminal, a second current terminal, and a control terminal, the first current terminal of the transistor coupled to a load terminal, the second current terminal of the transistor coupled to a ground; a sense transistor including a first current terminal, a second current terminal, and a control terminal, the...