ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,532, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).
"Automatic current ranging system" was invented by James Alan Niemann (Chagrin Falls, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current measurement system, comprising a plurality of parallel sensing circuits, each sensing circuit configured to measure a respective range of voltage corresponding to a current through a load, wherein each sensing circuit is triggered to initiate measurement of a voltage across the load in response to a buffer current through a common buffer reaching a respective threshold, a buffer circuit for inputting a virtual ground voltage...