ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,777, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Methods and semiconductor integrated circuits for managing logical behaviour of floating input pin" was invented by Himanshu Saxena (Bengaluru, India) and Ankur Gupta (Bengaluru, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A semiconductor integrated circuit, comprising: an input pin; a switch having a drain terminal electrically connected to the input pin, and configured to be in an ON mode or an OFF mode, responsive to a state of the input pin; a first logic block electrically connected to a gate terminal of the switch and a source terminal of th...