US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on April 7 for "Half-bridge driver circuit, related integrated circuit, half-bridge switching circuit and method" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,916, issued on April 7, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Half-bridge driver circuit, related integrated circuit, half-bridge switching circuit and method" was invented by Marco Giovanni Fontana (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A half-bridge driver circuit is provided. The circuit includes a detector circuit that generates a signal indicating whether a floating reference voltage is greater than a second supply voltage. The detector circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit and combinational logic circuit. A first comparator circuit of the first circuit monitors a voltage drop at a resis...