ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,399, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Zero current detection device" was invented by Chul Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Yechan Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Jaeouk Cho (Daejeon, South Korea), Hongkyun Kim (Daejeon, South Korea) and Seong Jae Moon (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A zero current detection device is proposed. The device may include a scaling circuit unit configured to generate a first voltage which is scaled from a target voltage. The device may also include a mirroring circuit unit configured to generate a mirroring current whe...