ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,375, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"Device and method for kickback protection" was invented by Rosario Attanasio (Barrington, Ill.), Mauro Scandiuzzo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Haozhou Yu (Acton, Mass.), Nicola Siciliano (Winchester, Mass.) and Min Kyun Kim (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure, a method for confirming kickback is provided. In some embodiments, the method for confirming kickback comprises, in response to an indication of a kickback occurrence, comparing an input current to a predetermined current threshol...