US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Sept. 22 for "Electronic circuit for detecting fault of an oscillator and controlling oscillator operation" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,518, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Electronic circuit for detecting fault of an oscillator and controlling oscillator operation" was invented by Stephane Ducrey (Voiron, France) and Jean Claude Bini (Tourrettes-sur-loup, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic circuit includes a reference clock signal generator block and functional blocks. In response to a detected failure on a signal originating from a reference frequency generator of the reference clock signal generator block, only the reference frequency generator of the reference clock signal generator block, but...