US Patent Issued to STMicroeletronics on Sept. 22 for "Shock recovery" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,534, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to STMicroeletronics N.V. (Geneva).

"Shock recovery" was invented by Paolo Rosingana (Savigliano, Italy) and Matteo Quartiroli (Certosa di Pavia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shock recovery circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a phase locked loop (PLL) monitor circuit configured to receive at least one of a PLL input clock and a PLL feedback clock, and to generate a PLL status signal based on at least one of the PLL input clock and the PLL feedback clock, the PLL status signal indicating whether a shock event has occurred; an acceleration monitor circuit configured to receive acc...