US Patent Issued to Intel on Sept. 22 for "Current sensing in non-CMOS semiconductor technology for power conversion applications" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,801, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Current sensing in non-CMOS semiconductor technology for power conversion applications" was invented by Nachiket Desai (Portland, Ore.) and Harish K. Krishnamurthy (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to a current sensor for a power converter such as a buck converter. The power converter is fabricated on a high bandgap semiconductor die while the current sensor includes a portion on the same die and a portion on a silicon die. The portion on the same die includes a sense transistor, while the portion on the silicon die i...