US Patent Issued to Rohm on July 28 for "Current sensor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,316, issued on July 28, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Current sensor" was invented by Kenichi Masago (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sensor includes: a first and a second input terminal configured to be capable of having a sense resistor connected therebetween; a square wave generation circuit connected to the first and second input terminals and configured to be capable of generating a square-wave signal with an amplitude proportional to the voltage across the sense resistor; and a current sense signal output circuit configured to be capable of outputting based on the square-wave signal a curr...