US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics, POLITECNICO DI MILANO on Sept. 9 for "Laser driver incorporating clamping circuit with freewheeling diode" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,045, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and POLITECNICO DI MILANO (Milan).

"Laser driver incorporating clamping circuit with freewheeling diode" was invented by Marco Zamprogno (Cesano Maderno, Italy) and Alireza Tajfar (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input is coupled to a cathode of a laser diode having its anode coupled to a high-voltage-supply, with a cascoded current mirror having an input and output branches. The input branch is coupled between the high-voltage-supply and a sense resistor coupled to the input. The output branch is coupled between the high-voltage-supply...