US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on April 15 for "LED array driver with channel to channel and channel to ground external PIN short detection" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,350, issued on April 15, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"LED array driver with channel to channel and channel to ground external PIN short detection" was invented by Maria Francesca Seminara (Catania, Italy) and Salvatore Rosario Musumeci (Fiumefreddo di Sic, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A LED driver chip includes driver circuits, each being coupled to a different pin and including a fault-detection circuit. Each fault-detection circuit includes a force circuit forcing current to a force node, and a sense circuit including a current sensor coupled to the force node, and a comparator comparin...