ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,824, issued on June 24, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (MB, Italy).
"Circuit for controlling a resistive circuit" was invented by Marco Mazzini (Pavia, Italy), Marco Ciuffolini (Pieve Emanuele, Italy), Enrico Mammei (Vittuone, Italy) and Paolo Pulici (Lainate, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a circuit is configured to vary an intensity of a drive current of a resistive heater element based on the digital control signal. The circuit includes and output circuit configured to control a respective slew rate and an electric energy dissipated in the resistive heater element independently of...