US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on Jan. 27 for "Isolated driver device, corresponding electronic system and method of transmitting a data signal across a galvanic isolation barrier" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,522, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Isolated driver device, corresponding electronic system and method of transmitting a data signal across a galvanic isolation barrier" was invented by Carlo Curina (Bareggio, Italy) and Valerio Bendotti (Vilminore di Scalve, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an electronic device, a pulse generator receives an input signal and a clock signal and produces a transmission signal that includes a pulse following each edge of the input signal and of the clock signal. The pulse is low when the input signal is low and high when the input signal is...