ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,796, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS (Grenoble, France) and STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS (Grenoble, France).
"Envelope detection" was invented by Danika Perrin (Jarrie, France) and Sandrine Nicolas (Saint Egreve, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment an envelope detection device includes an input terminal configured to receive an amplitude-modulated radio frequency signal, a first resistive element and a first MOS transistor connected in parallel between the input terminal and a first node configured to receive a reference potential, a first capacitive element connected between...