US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS on May 20 for "Self-testing circuits for devices having multiple input channels with redundancy" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,242, issued on May 20, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Self-testing circuits for devices having multiple input channels with redundancy" was invented by Nicola Errico (Rho, Italy), Alessandro Cannone (Rho, Italy), Enrico Ferrara (Milan) and Luigi Piscitelli (Cusano Milanino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes: first analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) configured to be coupled to respective ones of first sensors; a first multiplexer (MUX) coupled to output terminals of the first ADCs; a second MUX configured to be coupled to second sensors which are redundant sensors for the fir...