US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Feb. 3 for "PWM signal generator circuit and related integrated circuit" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,542, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"PWM signal generator circuit and related integrated circuit" was invented by Domenico Tripodi (Milan), Luca Giussani (Canegrate, Italy) and Simone Ludwig Dalla Stella (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PWM signal generator circuit includes a multiphase clock generator that generates a number n of phase-shifted clock phases having the same clock period and being phase shifted by a time corresponding to a fraction 1/n of the clock period. The PWM signal generator circuit determines for each switch-on duration first and second integer numbers,...