ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,186, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Threshold generation circuit, corresponding system and method" was invented by Francesco Ciappa (Turin, Italy), Alberto Bianco (Aosta, Italy) and Riccardo Peloso (Aosta, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure pertains to adaptive wake-up threshold generation in variable power supplies, particularly applicable to USB-PD chargers and wireless charging devices with digital controllers. It addresses the problem of power consumption during zero-load conditions in burst mode operation. The invention comprises a circuit with a processor,...