ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,655, issued on April 21, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Current sensor" was invented by Yasunori Kawaguchi (Makinohara, Japan) and Shintaro Nakajima (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A current sensor includes a circuit board, a shunt resistor-integrated busbar including two busbar portions and a shunt resistor portion connected between the two busbar portions, electrical connection portions for electrically connecting conductive traces arranged on the circuit board and the busbar portions, and a fixing portion for fixing the circuit board to the shunt resistor-integrated busbar, wherein where a longitudinal d...