ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,351, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Canada Inc. (Ottawa).

"Power current signal generation using sense transistors" was invented by Nan Xing (Allen, Texas), Yinglai Xia (Plano, Texas) and Yalong Li (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power transistor current sense circuit. The control nodes of each of a power transistor and sense transistors are connected. The input nodes of the power transistor and each of the sense transistors are also connected. A voltage divider is connected between a reference voltage source and the output node of a second sense transistor. A negative feedback circuit is connec...