US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Sept. 29 for "Receiver circuit, corresponding system and method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,009, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Receiver circuit, corresponding system and method" was invented by Nunzio Spina (Catania, Italy), Alessandro Castorina (Acireale, Italy) and Giuseppe Palmisano (S. Giovanni la Punta, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An envelope detector receives a modulated signal and a differential stage coupled to the detector produces a replica modulated signal compared to produce a PWM-modulated signal having on and off times. A first switch is actuated to short-circuit the input to the envelope detector. A second switch is actuated to feed back to a st...