ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,789, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Renesas Design (UK) Ltd. (Bourne End, Great Britain).
"Apparatus for generating a digital signal dependent on a current slope" was invented by Dantes John (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for generating a digital signal that is dependent on an average slope of a first current flowing through a circuit element during a sample period, the apparatus comprising a delta-sigma modulator configured to sense the first current during the sample period, and generate the digital signal using the sensed first current."
The patent was filed on Aug. 24, 2023, under Application No. 18/455,36...