ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,360, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).
"Leakage-based startup circuit" was invented by Federico Fary (Pontey, Italy), Sandro Rossi (Pavia, Italy), Niccolo Brambilla (San Donato Milanese, Italy) and Giovanni Sicurella (Catania, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A startup circuit includes a first circuit leg coupled between an input node and an output node and a second circuit leg coupled between the input node and the output node. The first circuit generates a first current and the second circuit leg sinks current from a first node based upon the first current. A third circuit leg is...