ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,259, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).
"Low-power sensors utilizing wiegand coils" was invented by Paul A. David (Bow, N.H.), Alexander Latham (Harvard, Mass.) and Ronald Lehndorff (Mainz, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, structures, circuits, packages and methods provide low-power devices such as sensors and sensor packages having one or more Wiegand coils that can be used for activation of a sensor or other device, as well as potentially supplying operating power. In some embodiments, one or more Wiegand coils can be located in a sensor package, e.g., as one or more discret...