ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,176, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Integratable voltage reference" was invented by Andrea Gambero (Santo Stefano Ticino, Italy), Sandro Rossi (Pavia, Italy), Lorenzo Labate (Milan), Simona Angela Cozzi (Legnano, Italy), Giulio Ricotti (Broni, Italy) and Marco Marchesi (Corbetta, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system is disclosed. The system includes a Gallium Nitride (GaN) semiconductor die and further including, entirely disposed on the GaN semiconductor die i) a voltage reference circuit including GaN semiconductor transistors, the voltage reference circuit c...