US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Dec. 9 for "Power-on-reset request functionality in semiconductor devices and power management ICs" (French, American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,333, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Power-on-reset request functionality in semiconductor devices and power management ICs" was invented by Alaa Eldin Y El Sherif (Plano, Texas), Jean-Philippe Meunier (Ayguesvives, France), Loic Hureau (Sainte Marie d'Attez, France), Thomas Henry Luedeke (Oberbergkirchen, Germany) and Maxime Clairet (Labastidette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor circuit is disclosed, comprising: a processor; a supply-voltage terminal arranged to receive a supply voltage; an out-of-range-voltage-detection circuit, coupled to the supply-voltage terminal and configu...