ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,777, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to ELAN MICROELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Multi-port driving and sensing circuit" was invented by Hua-I Luo (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Te-Sheng Chiu (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-port driving and sensing circuit is disclosed and provided for multi-load application. The multi-port driving and sensing circuit has a plurality of bridge switching unit and a controlling unit. A first and second upper switches of each bridge switching unit are commonly connected to a driving voltage terminal, and a first and second lower switches are commonly connected to a refer...