ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,765, issued on April 14, was assigned to Suncall Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Current sensor" was invented by Akio Mugishima (Kyoto, Japan) and Kenji Murakami (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sensor that can reduce an installation area and improve measurement accuracy has a busbar through which current to be measured flows and a magnetic sensor that detects a magnetic field component generated by the current flowing through the busbar. The busbar can have left and right through-holes which can change the flow of the current to be measured. The magnetic sensor can be mounted on the upper surface of the busbar and can ...