ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,822, issued on June 17, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).
"Timer circuit" was invented by Julia Richter (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A timer circuit including a ramp voltage generator configured to generate a ramp voltage, a comparator coupled on its input side to the ramp voltage generator to receive the ramp voltage and configured to compare the ramp voltage with a switching threshold, and a voltage pulse generating circuit configured to generate a reset signal as a response to a received output signal of the comparator, wherein the reset signal has a shorter time duration than an intrinsic re...