US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Feb. 10 for "Switch circuit" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,174, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switch circuit" was invented by Ya-Hsuan Sung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switch circuit that has input and output terminals and a control terminal includes first to fourth transistors, a resistor, and a pull-low circuit. The first transistor has first and terminals. The second transistor has third and fourth terminals. The third transistor has fifth and sixth terminals. The fourth transistor has seventh and eighth terminals. The first to fourth transistors have first to fourth control terminals, respectively. The resistor ha...