US Patent Issued to Analog Devices on Oct. 27 for "Current limiting systems and associated methods" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,644, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Current limiting systems and associated methods" was invented by Hua Chen (Monterey, Calif.), Bin Zhang (Durham, N.C.) and Qiwei Chen (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current limiting system includes a plurality of current limiting devices electrically coupled in series to form a protected power path, where each current limiting device is configured to individually limit magnitude of an electric current flowing through the protected power path to a respective current limit value. Each current limiting device is further configured to con...