Patents by Inventor Silvio Fornera

Silvio Fornera 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).

  • Oscillator, time-digital converter circuit and relating method of time-digital measure
    Patent number: 9007133
    Abstract: A ring oscillator has a plurality of elementary units connected in cascade and linked in order to make a chain with the respective output terminals connected to the input terminals of the successive elementary units of the chain, the elementary units being crossed by a cyclic signal during a time period of activation, each of said elementary units comprising an auxiliary recovery terminal for temporarily resetting each elementary unit during each loop of said cyclic signal, said auxiliary recovery terminal being connected to an output terminal of a successive elementary unit of the chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Giovanni Cremonesi, Roberto Giorgio Bardelli, Silvio Fornera
  • OSCILLATOR, TIME-DIGITAL CONVERTER CIRCUIT AND RELATING METHOD OF TIME-DIGITAL MEASURE
    Publication number: 20120262240
    Abstract: A ring oscillator has a plurality of elementary units connected in cascade and linked in order to make a chain with the respective output terminals connected to the input terminals of the successive elementary units of the chain, the elementary units being crossed by a cyclic signal during a time period of activation, each of said elementary units comprising an auxiliary recovery terminal for temporarily resetting each elementary unit during each loop of said cyclic signal, said auxiliary recovery terminal being connected to an output terminal of a successive elementary unit of the chain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
    Inventors: Giovanni Cremonesi, Roberto Giorgio Bardelli, Silvio Fornera