US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Sept. 22 for "Input/output port circuit and chip thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,467, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Input/output port circuit and chip thereof" was invented by Sz-Ying Yu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chen-Hsuan Ku (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shang-Hung Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kun-Yu Tai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input/output port circuit includes an input/output pad, a transistor, and a conductive routing wire. The transistor has a first connection terminal and a second connection terminal. The first connection terminal of the transistor is electrically connected to the input/output pad through a conductive connection wire, and the sec...