US Patent Issued to NXP on Aug. 25 for "Power-on reset circuit" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,472, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Power-on reset circuit" was invented by Sanjay Kumar Wadhwa (Noida, India), Neha Goel (Noida, India) and Sapna Sharma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power-on reset (POR) circuit includes a first transistor and a stack of transistors. The first transistor generates an enable voltage based on a first supply voltage. The enable voltage is a reduced version of the first supply voltage and ramps up based on a ramp-up of the first supply voltage. The stack of transistors generates a control voltage. The control voltage is a reduced version of th...