US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on June 30 for "Integrated sensor and method of timing monitoring in an integrated sensor" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,531, issued on June 30, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Integrated sensor and method of timing monitoring in an integrated sensor" was invented by Matteo Quartiroli (Certosa di Pavia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The integrated sensor has a clock which provides a clock signal having a clock frequency; a digital detector which detects a power grid signal and generates a reference digital signal indicative of the power grid signal and having a sample rate which is a function of the clock frequency; and a timing monitoring stage which receives the reference digital signal and a nominal signal ...