ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,198, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Circuit for biasing an external resistive sensor" was invented by Dario Livornesi (Milan), Mattia Fausto Moretti (Monza, Italy), Paolo Pulici (Lainate, Italy), Alessio Emanuele Vergani (Milan), Alessio Facen (Macerata, Italy), Michele Bartolini (Carpiano, Italy), Roberto Faravelli (Pavia, Italy) and Francesco Piscitelli (Milan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a circuit includes a core and low-frequency recovery circuits. The core circuit is configured to bias a resistive sensor used to measure a fly height of a hard dis...