US Patent Issued to Allegro MicroSystems on July 14 for "Integrated circuit pin for reference voltage and fault communication" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,053, issued on July 14, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).

"Integrated circuit pin for reference voltage and fault communication" was invented by Matthew Hein (Dallas) and Benjamin Damkroger (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor integrated circuit includes a sensing circuit configured to generate the sensor output signal and a fault circuit to detect a fault and generate a fault signal indicative of the fault. A combined signal indicative of the fault signal when a fault is detected and indicative of a reference voltage associated with the sensor IC at other times is provided at a shared connection...