ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,644,936, issued on June 2, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).

"Chopping scheme for magnetic field sensor having shared ADC" was invented by Ahmed Hassan Fahmy (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for magnetic field sensor having a sample chopping with a shared ADC. A sensor may include receiving a chopping sequence for samples from first and second channels that share an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) in a magnetic field sensor. The samples for the first and second channel are timed with respect to a virtual sampling time (VST), such that a sum of the sample times for the sample...