US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics France on March 11 for "Clock generator circuit for near field communication device" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,991, issued on March 11, was assigned to STMicroelectronics France (Montrouge, France).

"Clock generator circuit for near field communication device" was invented by Laurent Jean Garcia (Le Champ Pres Froges, France) and Marc Houdebine (Crolles, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clock generator circuit includes an oscillator circuit coupled to a bias circuit. The bias circuit includes a current mirror, third and fourth transistors, and a cascode transistor. The current mirror includes a reference transistor and a set of copy transistors that are programmable. The third transistor has a source connected to a cold spot, a drain ...