ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,621, issued on April 14, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Sensor device and related method and system" was invented by Matteo Quartiroli (Broni, Italy), Alessandro Mecchia (Vimercate, Italy) and Laura Maestri (Pavia, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The sensor is configured to provide a digital output signal and has a digital detector, which is configured to detect a physical quantity and generate a conditioned digital signal indicative of the detected physical quantity; and a rate modification stage, configured to receive the conditioned digital signal and a group of parameters, the group of p...