Patents by Inventor Philippe Sirito-Olivier

Philippe Sirito-Olivier has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250251437
    Abstract: Provided is a power electronic circuit comprising at least one power transistor the gate of which is coupled to a control circuit, and the source of which is coupled to a first contact pad, wherein the control circuit is coupled to a second contact pad, and wherein the first and second contact pads are configured to be decoupled from each other when the power electronic circuit is in a configuration for stress testing the gate of the power transistor, and configured to be coupled to each other when the power transistor and control circuit are encapsulated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2025
    Publication date: August 7, 2025
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics International N.V.
    Inventors: Kuno LENZ, Philippe SIRITO-OLIVIER, David DELSALLE
  • Publication number: 20240171424
    Abstract: A vehicle communication network includes electronic control units arranged in a plurality of groups. The electronic control units pertaining to the same group are coupled to each other via a respective dedicated communication bus. A central controller is coupled to the plurality of local controllers. Electrical loads are coupled to one of the electronic control units. Each of the electronic control units is configured to decode the received CAN frame to produce the actuation signal for a respective electrical load in response to a CAN frame being received from the respective local controller and transmit a CAN wake-up frame to the respective local controller and encode the feedback signal into a CAN frame for transmission to the respective local controller in response to the feedback signal being received from the respective electrical load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Fred Rennig, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Manuel Gaertner, Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Fritz Burkhardt, Aldo Occhipinti
  • Patent number: 11953546
    Abstract: According to one aspect, an integrated circuit includes: an electronic module configured to generate a voltage at an output, and an electronic control circuit coupled to an output of the electronic module, the electronic control circuit comprising an emissive electronic component. The electronic control circuit is configured to cause the emissive electronic component to emit light radiation as a function of a value of the voltage at the output of the electronic module relative to a value of an operating voltage of the electronic module, and the operating voltage is specific thereto during normal operation of this electronic module. The light radiation emitted by the emissive electronic component is configured to diffuse to an outer face of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS
    Inventors: Etienne Auvray, Tommaso Melis, Philippe Sirito-Olivier
  • Patent number: 11889594
    Abstract: A system includes lighting devices coupled to output supply pins, a microcontroller circuit, and a driver circuit, which receives data therefrom, and switches coupled in series to the lighting devices. The driver circuit includes output supply pins and selectively propagates a supply voltage to the output supply pins to provide respective pulse-width modulated supply signals at the output supply pins. The driver circuit computes duty-cycle values of the pulse-width modulated supply signals as a function of the data received from the microcontroller circuit. The lighting devices include at least one subset coupled to the same output supply pin. The microcontroller individually controls the switches via respective control signals to individually adjust a brightness of the lighting devices in the at least one subset of lighting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS, STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics Application GMBH
    Inventors: Manuel Gaertner, Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Thomas Urbitsch, Christophe Roussel, Fritz Burkhardt
  • Patent number: 11823750
    Abstract: A method for writing into a one-time programmable memory of an integrated circuit includes attempting, by a memory control circuit of the integrated circuit, to write data in at least one first register of the one-time programmable memory; verifying, by the memory control circuit, whether the data has been correctly written in the at least one first register; and, in case the data has not been correctly written in the at least one first register, attempting, by the memory control circuit, to write the data in at least one second register of the one-time programmable memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS (ALPS) SAS, STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Giovanni Luca Torrisi
  • Publication number: 20230213577
    Abstract: According to one aspect, an integrated circuit includes: an electronic module configured to generate a voltage at an output, and an electronic control circuit coupled to an output of the electronic module, the electronic control circuit comprising an emissive electronic component. The electronic control circuit is configured to cause the emissive electronic component to emit light radiation as a function of a value of the voltage at the output of the electronic module relative to a value of an operating voltage of the electronic module, and the operating voltage is specific thereto during normal operation of this electronic module. The light radiation emitted by the emissive electronic component is configured to diffuse to an outer face of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Etienne Auvray, Tommaso Melis, Philippe Sirito-Olivier
  • Patent number: 11624779
    Abstract: According to one aspect, an integrated circuit includes: an electronic module configured to generate a voltage at an output, and an electronic control circuit coupled to an output of the electronic module, the electronic control circuit comprising an emissive electronic component. The electronic control circuit is configured to cause the emissive electronic component to emit light radiation as a function of a value of the voltage at the output of the electronic module relative to a value of an operating voltage of the electronic module, and the operating voltage is specific thereto during normal operation of this electronic module. The light radiation emitted by the emissive electronic component is configured to diffuse to an outer face of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS
    Inventors: Etienne Auvray, Tommaso Melis, Philippe Sirito-Olivier
  • Publication number: 20220312566
    Abstract: A system includes lighting devices coupled to output supply pins, a microcontroller circuit, and a driver circuit, which receives data therefrom, and switches coupled in series to the lighting devices. The driver circuit includes output supply pins and selectively propagates a supply voltage to the output supply pins to provide respective pulse-width modulated supply signals at the output supply pins. The driver circuit computes duty-cycle values of the pulse-width modulated supply signals as a function of the data received from the microcontroller circuit. The lighting devices include at least one subset coupled to the same output supply pin. The microcontroller individually controls the switches via respective control signals to individually adjust a brightness of the lighting devices in the at least one subset of lighting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Manuel Gaertner, Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Thomas Urbitsch, Christophe Roussel, Fritz Burkhardt
  • Publication number: 20220018899
    Abstract: According to one aspect, an integrated circuit includes: an electronic module configured to generate a voltage at an output, and an electronic control circuit coupled to an output of the electronic module, the electronic control circuit comprising an emissive electronic component. The electronic control circuit is configured to cause the emissive electronic component to emit light radiation as a function of a value of the voltage at the output of the electronic module relative to a value of an operating voltage of the electronic module, and the operating voltage is specific thereto during normal operation of this electronic module. The light radiation emitted by the emissive electronic component is configured to diffuse to an outer face of the integrated circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Etienne Auvray, Tommaso Melis, Philippe Sirito-Olivier
  • Publication number: 20210375377
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for writing into a one-time programmable memory of an integrated circuit, the method comprising attempting, by a memory control circuit of the integrated circuit, to write data in at least one first register of the one-time programmable memory; verifying, by the memory control circuit, whether the data has been correctly written in the at least one first register; and, in case the data has not been correctly written in the at least one first register, attempting, by the memory control circuit, to write the data in at least one second register of the one-time programmable memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Giovanni Luca Torrisi
  • Patent number: 10607949
    Abstract: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is provided by a circuit including a resistor having a first terminal and a second terminal, a zener diode having a cathode terminal directly connected to said first terminal and an anode terminal directly connected to a third terminal, and a clamp diode having a cathode terminal directly connected to said second terminal and an anode terminal directly connected to said third terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Yves Mazoyer, Philippe Galy, Philippe Sirito-Olivier
  • Patent number: 10492281
    Abstract: The power supply device comprises a supply transistor commanded by a command signal and providing electric power to a lighting module, and a driving means configured to selectively generate, depending on an instruction signal representative of the structure of said at least one lighting module, a first command signal able to command the supply transistor into an ohmic regime, a second command signal able to command the supply transistor into a pulse width modulation regime involving an alternation of ohmic regimes and blocked regimes, and a third command signal able to command the supply transistor into a saturated regime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics Application GmbH, STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Manuel Gaertner, Fritz Burkhardt
  • Publication number: 20190191536
    Abstract: The power supply device comprises a supply transistor commanded by a command signal and providing electric power to a lighting module, and a driving means configured to selectively generate, depending on an instruction signal representative of the structure of said at least one lighting module, a first command signal able to command the supply transistor into an ohmic regime, a second command signal able to command the supply transistor into a pulse width modulation regime involving an alternation of ohmic regimes and blocked regimes, and a third command signal able to command the supply transistor into a saturated regime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics Application GmbH, STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Philippe SIRITO-OLIVIER, Giovanni Luca TORRISI, Manuel GAERTNER, Fritz BURKHARDT
  • Patent number: 10257917
    Abstract: The power supply device comprises a supply transistor commanded by a command signal and providing electric power to a lighting module, and a driving means configured to selectively generate, depending on an instruction signal representative of the structure of said at least one lighting module, a first command signal able to command the supply transistor into an ohmic regime, a second command signal able to command the supply transistor into a pulse width modulation regime involving an alternation of ohmic regimes and blocked regimes, and a third command signal able to command the supply transistor into a saturated regime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignees: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics Application GmbH
    Inventors: Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Giovanni Luca Torrisi, Manuel Gaertner, Fritz Burkhardt
  • Publication number: 20180351353
    Abstract: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection is provided by a circuit including a resistor having a first terminal and a second terminal, a zener diode having a cathode terminal directly connected to said first terminal and an anode terminal directly connected to a third terminal, and a clamp diode having a cathode terminal directly connected to said second terminal and an anode terminal directly connected to said third terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Yves Mazoyer, Philippe Galy, Philippe Sirito-Olivier
  • Publication number: 20180310390
    Abstract: The power supply device comprises a supply transistor commanded by a command signal and providing electric power to a lighting module, and a driving means configured to selectively generate, depending on an instruction signal representative of the structure of said at least one lighting module, a first command signal able to command the supply transistor into an ohmic regime, a second command signal able to command the supply transistor into a pulse width modulation regime involving an alternation of ohmic regimes and blocked regimes, and a third command signal able to command the supply transistor into a saturated regime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Applicants: STMicroelectronics (Alps) SAS, STMicroelectronics S.r.l., STMicroelectronics Application GmbH
    Inventors: Philippe SIRITO-OLIVIER, Giovanni Luca TORRISI, Manuel GAERTNER, Fritz BURKHARDT
  • Patent number: 9705400
    Abstract: An output stage configuration with four configurable input/output terminals and four switches is specified. Each switch has a first main terminal, a second main terminal and a control terminal, which receives a control signal for controlling the open or closed state of the switch. The output stage is included in a circuit together with a first control apparatus and a second control apparatus. When a control stage of the first control apparatus is connected to the output stage, a control stage of the second control apparatus is electrically disconnected from the output stage, and the output stage operates in a first operating state. When the control stage of the second control apparatus is connected to the output stage, the control stage of the first control apparatus is electrically disconnected from the output stage, the output stage then operating in a second operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: OPTIS CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Philippe Sirito-Olivier, Patrizia Milazzo, Angelo Nagari
  • Patent number: 9485575
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of protecting an inductive loudspeaker. The method comprises filtering the audio stream by applying a compensation filter to the audio stream, sending the filtered audio stream to the inductive loudspeaker, computing an estimation of a frequency response of the inductive loudspeaker and updating the compensation filter so as to attenuate a frequency corresponding to a resonant frequency in the estimated frequency response of the inductive loudspeaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: ST-Ericsson SA
    Inventors: Philippe Marguery, Angelo Nagari, Philippe Sirito-Olivier
  • Publication number: 20160118892
    Abstract: A circuit comprising: —an output stage according to the invention; —a first control apparatus comprising a control stage of the first control apparatus is connected to the output stage; and, —a second control apparatus comprising a control stage of the second control apparatus is connected to the output stage; wherein, —when the control stage of the first control apparatus is connected to the output stage, the control stage of the second control apparatus is electrically disconnected from the output stage, the output stage being configured to operate in a first operating state; and, —when the control stage of the second control apparatus is connected to the output stage, the control stage of the first control apparatus is electrically disconnected from the output stage, the output stage being configured to operate in a second operating state. The output stage and the use of the output stage are also claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Philippe SIRITO-OLIVIER, Patrizia MILAZZO, Angelo NAGARI
  • Publication number: 20140146971
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of protecting an inductive loudspeaker. The method comprises filtering the audio stream by applying a compensation filter to the audio stream, sending the filtered audio stream to the inductive loudspeaker, computing an estimation of a frequency response of the inductive loudspeaker and updating the compensation filter so as to attenuate a frequency corresponding to a resonant frequency in the estimated frequency response of the inductive loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: ST-ERICSSON SA
    Inventors: Philippe Marguery, Angelo Nagari, Philippe Sirito-Olivier