US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 14 for "Input receiver circuits selectively connected to input/output pad based on operation mode" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. RE50,865, issued on April 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Input receiver circuits selectively connected to input/output pad based on operation mode" was invented by Young Chul Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jung Bae Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Jung Hwan Choi (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an input/output interface includes selecting one of a plurality of output driver circuits according to a mode selection signal, and outputting a data signal using the selected one of the plurality of output driver circuits. Another method of operating an inc...