ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,690,126, issued on July 21, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"PCB for an IC chip with D-PHY function and C-PHY function and an PCB assembly including the IC chip" was invented by Meysam Peykanu (Siegen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A printed circuit board, PCB, comprising: a first pin pad (PP1), adapted to be connected to a first pin of an integrated circuit, IC, chip, wherein the first pin of the IC chip is a pin for a D-PHY function and a C-PHY function provided by the IC chip; a first wire (W1), adapted as a line for the D-PHY function; a second wire (W2), adapted as a line for the C-PHY fun...