US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on Jan. 13 for "Transistor driving a load, and corresponding circuit arrangement for sensing" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,681, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Transistor driving a load, and corresponding circuit arrangement for sensing" was invented by Placido De Vita (Acicatena, Italy), Salvatore Abbisso (Augusta, Italy), Giovanni Luca Torrisi (Aci Catena, Italy) and Antonio Davide Leone (Siziano, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pre-driving stage drives one or more Field Effect Transistors in a power stage driving a load. A method for measuring current flowing in the Field Effect Transistors includes: measuring drain to source voltages of the one or more Field Effect Transistor; and measurin...