US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Nov. 25 for "Voltage sensor with in-range check for safety-critical applications" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,480,981, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Voltage sensor with in-range check for safety-critical applications" was invented by Anatoly Gelman (San Diego), Felipe Regis Goncalves Cabral (Crosshaven, Ireland), Mingcheng Zhu (San Diego) and Amit Aneja (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to voltage sensing for safety-critical applications. In accordance with one aspect, the disclosure includes a multi-phase ring oscillator (RO) configured to operate in a first voltage domain; a frequency counter coupled to the multi-phase RO, the frequency counter configured to ...