US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on June 23 for "Radiofrequency detector circuit and corresponding radiofrequency detection method" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,455, issued on June 23, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Radiofrequency detector circuit and corresponding radiofrequency detection method" was invented by Gaetano Cosentino (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A radiofrequency detector comprises a squarer circuit comprising first and second branches coupled between a voltage supply and ground, the first branch comprising at least a first squarer transistor receiving a RF sinusoidal input voltage, the first squarer transistor being coupled to the voltage supply through a respective load, the second branch comprising a second reference tran...