US Patent Issued to Monolithic Power Systems on May 13 for "Integrated circuit with fault reporting structure" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,693, issued on May 13, was assigned to Monolithic Power Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit with fault reporting structure" was invented by Chiahsin Chang (Cupertino, Calif.), Tao Zhao (San Jose, Calif.) and Xintong Lyu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit with a fault reporting structure. The fault reporting structure includes a first fault reporting structure formed in at least one metal layer of the integrated circuit and electrically coupled to a first fault reporting pin of the integrated circuit. The first fault reporting structure may be adapted to report whether burnt point f...