ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,327, issued on May 19, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Data processing system, buffer circuit and method for operating buffer circuit" was invented by Shan Yuan Yang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Po-Hsien Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Huan-Wen Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffer circuit including a memory circuit and a control circuit is provided. The memory circuit stores an input data from a data transmitting device, and transmits an output data to a data receiving device. The control circuit computes a remaining data volume of the memory circuit, and generates a control signal according to ...