US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies Canada on April 7 for "Current sense circuit with electrostatic discharge protection" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,815, issued on April 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Canada Inc. (Ottawa).

"Current sense circuit with electrostatic discharge protection" was invented by Ahmad Mizannojehdehi (Stittsville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit that allows for accurate power transistor current sensing and electrostatic discharge protection. The circuit includes a power field-effect transistor and a sense field-effect transistor. The sense transistor current is proportional to (but much smaller than) the power transistor current. Thus, the power transistor current may be measured by measuring instead the sense transistor current. Th...