US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics on Sept. 9 for "System on chip including a PVT sensor and corresponding PVT sensing method" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,169, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"System on chip including a PVT sensor and corresponding PVT sensing method" was invented by Riccardo Condorelli (Tremestrieri Etneo, Italy), Antonino Mondello (Messina, Italy) and Michele Alessandro Carrano (Catania, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system-on-chip includes a process-voltage-temperature (PVT) sensor with a filter circuit that initiates a patterned digital signal and propagates the patterned digital signal in a manner responsive to variations in semiconductor material, operating supply voltage and operating temperature of...