Patent №
US 7,622,907
Granted
2009-11-24
Filed 2006
Owner
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS SPACE ADMINISTRATION
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Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
11535872
The invention relates to a driven ground electrical circuit. A driven ground is a current-measuring ground termination to an electrical circuit with the current measured as a vector with amplification. The driven ground module may include an electric potential source VS driving an electric current through an impedance (load Z) to a driven ground. Voltage from the source VS excites the minus terminal of an operational amplifier inside the driven ground which, in turn, may react by generating an equal and opposite voltage to drive the net potential to approximately zero (effectively ground). A driven ground may also be a means of passing information via the current passing through one grounded circuit to another electronic circuit as input. It may ground one circuit, amplify the information carried in its current and pass this information on as input to the next circuit.
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Ownership
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AS REPRESENTED BY THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE NATIONAL AERONAUTICS SPACE ADMINISTRATION
assignment · 187390924
Assignors
VRANISH, JOHN M., MR.
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