US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on March 24 for "Digital device having a reset pad circuit that may be subject to hacker attack" (Italian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,622, issued on March 24, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Digital device having a reset pad circuit that may be subject to hacker attack" was invented by Riccardo Condorelli (Catania, Italy), Antonino Mondello (Messina, Italy), Michele Alessandro Carrano (Catania, Italy), Michele Bottaro (Lentini, Italy), Salvatore Costa (Partinico, Italy) and Jacques Talayssat (Opio, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reset pad circuit has first and second inputs coupled, respectively, to a first reset access port receiving a first reset request and a second reset access port. The reset pad circuit generates a f...