ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,054, issued on March 3, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Communications circuit" was invented by Siamak Delshadpour (Phoenix), Xu Zhang (Chandler, Ariz.), Xiaoqun Liu (Chandler, Ariz.) and Xueyang Geng (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example discloses a communications circuit, including: a buffer having a buffer input and a buffer output; wherein the buffer includes a first path and a second path; wherein the first path includes, a first resistor coupled to the buffer input; a second resistor coupled to the buffer output; a current source having a first end and a second end; wherein the first resisto...