US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics, STMicroelectronics (Rousset) on May 27 for "Circuits and methods for debouncing signals produced by a rotary encoder" (Italian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,325, issued on May 27, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy) and STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Circuits and methods for debouncing signals produced by a rotary encoder" was invented by Giulio Zoppi (Palermo, Italy), Vincent Pascal Onde (Fuveau, France) and Giuseppe Romano (Palermo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first input node receives a first input signal and a second input node receives a second input signal. The first and second input signals are in phase quadrature. An edge detector circuit senses the first input signal and produces a pulsed signal indicative of edges d...