ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,072, issued on May 27, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Pulse generator circuit, related system and method" was invented by Romeo Letor (Mascalucia, Italy), Vanni Poletto (Milan), Antoine Pavlin (Puyricard, France), Alfio Russo (Acireale, Italy) and Nadia Lecci (Tremestieri Etneo, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pulse generator circuit includes: an LC resonant circuit coupled between a first node and a reference node; a first switch coupled between the first node and the reference node; a switching network comprising a second switch coupl...