ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,998, issued on May 5, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Methods and circuits for electrical power supply" was invented by Alberto Bianco (Gressan, Italy), Francesco Ciappa (Borgofranco d'Ivrea, Italy) and Donato Bondetti (Montalto Dora, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes at least one coupling node configured to be coupled, via a cable, to a load to transmit a supply voltage thereto. The circuit includes test circuitry configured to sense at least one sensing signal indicative of a value of the cable impedance and/or of the cable voltage across the cable, to perform a comparison bet...