ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,830, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Input circuit having adaptive voltage-receiving mechanism" was invented by Jyun-Ren Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an input circuit having adaptive voltage-receiving mechanism. A voltage transmission circuit includes an internal N-type transistor and a first N-type transistor. The internal N-type transistor is coupled between an output node for generating an output voltage and a first node. The first N-type transistor is coupled between a first node and a second node and is controlled by a con...