US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on March 3 for "Reference potential generating circuit and control method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,455, issued on March 3, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Reference potential generating circuit and control method thereof" was invented by Kuo-Lun Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kuo-Wei Chi (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A reference potential generating circuit includes at least one upper-potential selection switch, at least one lower-potential selection switch, a resistor string and at least one multiplexer. Each upper-potential selection switch receives an upper-voltage signal, and one of the upper-potential selection switches is turned on. Each lower-potential selection switch receives...