ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,310, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).
"Digital open pin detection" was invented by Bo Wang (Easton, Pa.) and Chun Cheung (Bridgewater, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, devices, and systems for detecting open pins are described. A controller can control at least one power stage. The controller can include a first set of interface pins, a digital communication bus and a circuit configured to switch connections between a reference voltage and the first set of interface pins. The controller can read a pin status of the at least one power stage via the digital communic...