US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for detecting power-on reset threshold" (Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,553,940, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Method and apparatus for detecting power-on reset threshold" was invented by Sandor Petenyi (Lysa nad Labem, Czech Republic) and Lukas Burian (Hudlice, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a testing circuit for indirectly testing generation of a power-on-reset signal within an integrated circuit (IC). The testing circuit includes a switch configured to selectively disconnect an internal circuit from a test pin of the IC in response to start-up of the IC, a plurality of resistors connected between the test pin and a re...