ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,139, issued on July 15, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Fast transient detection" was invented by Ali Eltoukhy (Los Gatos, Calif.), Mikhail Popovich (Danville, Calif.) and Rami Abouhamze (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A voltage supervisor (VS) or voltage sensing circuitry or architecture that can detect fast voltage transients. To detect fast voltage transients, a dedicated differential pair is routed between a point of load, such as a die or other chip, processor, etc., and the circuitry of the voltage supervisor. By connecting the differential pair at the point of load, fast voltage transien...