ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,782, issued on June 23, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy), STMicroelectronics Application GMBH (Aschheim-Dornach, Germany) and STMICROELECTRONICS DESIGN AND APPLICATION S.R.O. (Prague).

"Processing system, related integrated circuit, device and method" was invented by Fred Rennig (Nandlstadt, Germany), Jochen Barthel (Schechen, Germany), Ludek Beran (Strancice, Czech Republic), Mirko Dondini (Catania, Italy), Vaclav Dvorak (Mratin, Czech Republic), Vincenzo Polisi (Sta Maria di Licodia, Italy), Marianna Sanza' (Trecastagni, Italy), Calogeroandrea Trecarichi (Gela, Italy) and Alfonso Furio (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pa...