ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,691, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for monitoring function circuit and outputting result of monitoring" was invented by Hyunseok Nam (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Yus Ko (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sangho Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jaehyuk Yang (Gunpo-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a function circuit that operates based on power provided by a first positive supply voltage and a first negative supply voltage, a monitoring circuit that operates based on power provided by a second positive supply voltage and a second negat...