ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,360, issued on July 21, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

"Method for reducing influence of noise on signal line, decoding circuit and power providing/receiving device using the same" was invented by Chih-Ming Chen (Zhubei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reducing influence of noise on a signal line, a decoding circuit and a power provider are disclosed. The method includes steps of: dividing an analog signal to be decoded into levels; determining the level of the analog signal and acquiring the current level of the analog signal to be decoded to obtain a current level number; up...