US Patent Issued to GIGADEVICE SEMICONDUCTOR on July 14 for "GPIO circuit and chip" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,612, issued on July 14, was assigned to GIGADEVICE SEMICONDUCTOR INC. (Beijing).

"GPIO circuit and chip" was invented by Dequan Hou (Beijing) and Zhi Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A GPIO circuit and a chip are provided. The GPIO circuit includes at least one output driver branch each including output driver transistor. A gate of the output driver transistor is coupled to a respective pre-driver circuit including a conventional pre-driver circuit, a pre-driver transistor and a slow pre-driver (SPD) circuit. An output of the conventional pre-driver circuit is coupled to the gate of the output driver transistor, and a gate...