ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,623, issued on April 15, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Power on reset (POR) circuit" was invented by Henricus Cornelis Johannes Buthker (Mierlo, Netherlands), Jyotirmoy Ghosh (Kolkata, India), Piotr Gibas (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Edwin Schapendonk (Oss, Netherlands), Neha Goel (Noida, India) and Namith Vishnu N (Aluva, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example discloses a power on reset (POR) circuit, wherein a first circuit is configured to un-couple a power supply input from a resistor divider when the voltage on a second end of the capacitor is above a first circuit threshold; a second circuit configur...