US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on July 21 for "Timer" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,881, issued on July 21, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Timer" was invented by Patrick Arnould (Voreppe, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a circuit for managing a first clock signal clocking a timer adapted to being controlled by a processor clocked by a second clock signal. When the processor is off, the first clock signal is equal to a third clock signal having a frequency lower than the frequency of the second clock signal. When the processor is on, the first clock signal is equal to a fourth signal having a rising edge at each rising edge of the second clock signal directly follow...