ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,576, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HUAYUAN SEMICONDUCTOR (SHENZHEN) Ltd. COMPANY (Shenzhen, China) and Huayuan Semiconductor (Tianjin) Ltd. Co. (Tianjin, China).

"Disconnection point detection method for single-wire series circuits, single-wire series circuit, and driver architecture" was invented by Lei Xia (Shenzhen, China), Junyue Sun (Shenzhen, China), Haiming Yu (Shenzhen, China), Yuanlei Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Zhangyi Zhu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a disconnection point detection method for single-wire series circuits, a single-wire series circuit, and a driver ar...