US Patent Issued to Realtek Semiconductor on Aug. 4 for "Consumer electronics control system and electronic system control method" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,661, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Consumer electronics control system and electronic system control method" was invented by Chao-Min Lai (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A CEC system, comprising: a first IC, comprising a first pin and an anti-leakage circuit electrically coupled to the first pin; and a second IC, comprising a second pin electrically coupled to the first pin. The first IC or the second IC is configured to provide a CEC function. Thereby software can be used to simulate CEC functions to increase the number of CEC function sets without increasing hardwar...