US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Oct. 28 for "Systems, methods, and devices for current sensing" (New Hampshire, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,908, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Systems, methods, and devices for current sensing" was invented by Tim Wen Hui Yu (Fremont, Calif.) and Gregory Szczeszynski (Nashua, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) for controlling a power converter. The IC includes a controller that, in a first sensing period, enables a sensing circuit of the power converter and electrically connects an output node of an op amp of the sensing circuit and a first node of a capacitor of the sensing circuit, creating a first voltage across the capacitor; in a period between the first s...