US Patent Issued to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES on Sept. 22 for "Planar current sensor for power conversion applications" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,798, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to VIRGINIA TECH INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES INC. (Blacksburg, Va.).

"Planar current sensor for power conversion applications" was invented by Matthias Spieler (Blacksburg, Va.), Dong Dong (Blacksburg, Va.) and Rolando Burgos (Blacksburg, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example printed circuit board (PCB) with integrated current sense includes a direct current (DC) bus including a first DC trace and a second DC trace. The PCB with integrated current sense further includes a planar Rogowski coil positioned between the first DC trace and the second DC trace and electrically separated from the fi...