ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,971, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Electronic fuse systems and devices" was invented by Vincenzo Randazzo (Biancavilla, Italy), Alberto Marzo (Giarre, Italy), Giovanni Susinna (Catania, Italy), Vanni Poletto (Milan), Antoine Pavlin (Puyricard, France), Calogero Andrea Trecarichi (Gela, Italy), Mirko Dondini (Catania, Italy), Roberto Crisafulli (San Gregorio di Catania, Italy), Enrico Castro (Catania, Italy) and Romeo Letor (Mascalucia, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are directed to electronic fuse devices ...