US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on March 25 for "Capacitor charging method, corresponding circuit and device" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,597, issued on March 25, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Capacitor charging method, corresponding circuit and device" was invented by Alberto Marzo (Giarret, Italy), Vincenzo Randazzo (Biancavilla, Italy), Vanni Poletto (Milan) and Giovanni Susinna (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In embodiments, a capacitance is coupled to a source of electrical charge via a drain to source current flow path through a field-effect transistor. The capacitance is pre-charged by making the field-effect transistor selectively conductive in response to the gate-source voltage of the field-effect transist...