ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,360, issued on July 7, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Power supply circuit, related system and method" was invented by Vincenzo Polisi (Santa Maria di Licodia, Italy), Donato Tagliavia (Acireale, Italy), Calogero Andrea Trecarichi (Gela, Italy) and Mirko Dondini (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A power supply circuit includes a plurality of current supply circuits, each configured to provide an output current as a function of a respective digital control signal, and a measurement current proportional to the respective output current. A control circuit selects one of the measurement cu...