ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,914, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Hall sensor with complementary coil system" was invented by Fanping Sui (Plano, Texas), Chao-Hsiuan Tsay (Tucson, Ariz.), Dok Won Lee (Mountain View, Texas), Chase Mackenzie Puglisi (Tucson, Ariz.), Dimitar Trifonov (Vail, Ariz.) and Wai Lee (Dallas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, an integrated circuit (IC) written on a substrate that includes a substrate surface includes a magnetic concentrator, a Hall sensor, a primary coil, and a secondary coil. The Hall sensor at least partially overlaps the magnetic concentrator. The primary coil at l...