ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,738, issued on March 31, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Transmitter and driver architectures" was invented by Sri Harsha Manjunath (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include an input, an output, a current source, a first switch configured to electrically couple the current source to the output, a current sink, a second switch configured to electrically couple the current sink to the output, and a driver configured to modulate states of the output to reflect states of the input by: detecting a first input state of the input, changing the output to a first output sta...