US Patent Issued to Allegro MicroSystems on March 24 for "Flux concentrator and magnetoresistance configurations" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,976, issued on March 24, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).

"Flux concentrator and magnetoresistance configurations" was invented by Remy Lassalle-Balier (Bures sur Yvette, France) and Alexander Latham (Harvard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic field sensor includes magnetoresistance elements supported by a surface of the die defining a plane, and a concentrator layer over the surface of the die and having an aperture. A first magnetoresistance element is adjacent to a first edge of the aperture and has a first reference direction parallel to the surface of the die and substantially perpendic...