ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,473, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Electronic device" was invented by Antoine Pavlin (Puyricard, France), Vanni Poletto (Milan) and Vincenzo Randazzo (Biancavilla, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a device comprising a first transistor and a first circuit comprising first and second terminals, the first circuit being configured to generate a first voltage representing the temperature of the first transistor, a first terminal of the first circuit being coupled to the drain of the first t...