US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) on Dec. 2 for "Method and circuit for power-up of an electronic circuit" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,829, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Method and circuit for power-up of an electronic circuit" was invented by Antonio Calandra (Saint Maximin la Sainte Baume, France), Julia Castellan (Trets, France) and Philippe Bienvenu (Saint-Maximin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method comprising: applying, by a control circuit, a first pulsed signal, consisting of sequential first voltage pulses, to the gate of a power transistor supplying a capacitive load of the circuit, the pulses of the first pulsed signal being separated from each other by a ...