US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on Aug. 12 for "Piecewise linear function generating electronic circuit, corresponding generator, amplifier, method and computer program product" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,378, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Piecewise linear function generating electronic circuit, corresponding generator, amplifier, method and computer program product" was invented by Barbaro Marano (Viagrande, Italy) and Mario Chiricosta (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell includes a first pair and a second pair of MOS transistors. Each of the first pair and second pair of MOS transistors have drain electrodes coupled to a respective common input node. Each of the first pair and second pair of MOS transistors includes a diode-connected MOS transistor and a latch...