US Patent Issued to GlobalFoundries U.S. on June 24 for "Circuit and method for start-up of reference circuits in devices with a plurality of supply voltages" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,686, issued on June 24, was assigned to GlobalFoundries U.S. Inc. (Malta, N.Y.).

"Circuit and method for start-up of reference circuits in devices with a plurality of supply voltages" was invented by Dzung T. Tran (Austin, Texas), Shivraj G. Dharne (Bangalore, India) and Asif Iqbal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference circuit for an electronic device having a plurality of power supply voltages comprises a supply start-up circuit, a power-down start-up circuit, and a reference generating circuit. The supply start-up circuit comprising a resistive-capacitive (RC) circuit coupled between a first power supply volt...