US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on March 31 for "Reset output with open drain configuration for functional safety (FUSA) applications" (Null, Belgian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,281, issued on March 31, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Reset output with open drain configuration for functional safety (FUSA) applications" was invented by Philippe Quarmeau (Colomiers, France), Rastislav Koleno (Bratislava, Slovak Republic), Zoltan Randlisek (Bratislava, Slovak Republic) and Dieter Jozef Joos (Nieuwenrode, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reset output with open drain configuration for functional safety (FUSA) applications. Example embodiments include methods of operating an output of an integrated circuit (IC) including determining an error condition in the IC;...