US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 22 for "Low leakage multiplexer" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,529, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Low leakage multiplexer" was invented by Ziyan Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Saikrishna Ganta (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplexer circuit includes a plurality of switch circuits coupled between respective input nodes and an output node. The switch circuits include first and second switch elements coupled in series, at an intermediate node, between the respective input node and the output node. A third switch element is coupled between an output of a buffer and the intermediate node. The buffer is configured to generate a buffered volta...