US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Jan. 28 for "Method for implementing Vptat multiplier in high accuracy thermal sensor" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,919, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Method for implementing Vptat multiplier in high accuracy thermal sensor" was invented by Pijush Kanti Panja (Singur, India), Kallol Chatterjee (Kolkata, India) and Atul Dwivedi (Benares, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining temperature of a chip, includes generating a first voltage and a second voltage using a pair of bipolar-junction transistors, and generating a third voltage using another bipolar-junction transistor. When a most recent bit of a bitstream is a logic-zero, the difference between the first and second vol...