US Patent Issued to Allegro MicroSystems on July 7 for "Low-power magnetic sensing device and magnetic switch device comprising the magnetic sensing device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,611, issued on July 7, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).

"Low-power magnetic sensing device and magnetic switch device comprising the magnetic sensing device" was invented by Hakan Ates Gurcan (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Jeffrey Childress (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Magnetic sensing device integrated in a magnetic switch device that makes or breaks contact in the presence of an external magnetic field, comprising: a first transistor biased at a first terminal by a first bias voltage and a first magnetoresistive element having a first resistance variable with the external magnetic field. At a...