ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,952, issued on June 9, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Current sinking serial communication" was invented by Pavel Londak (Hutisko Solanec, Czech Republic), Jan Matej (Ostrava, Czech Republic), Richard Plesek (Hodslavice, Czech Republic) and Marek Bek (Koprivnice, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Current sinking serial communication. At least one example is a packaged semiconductor product comprising: an input terminal electrically accessible on an exterior surface; an output terminal electrically accessible on an exterior surface; a digital memory disposed within the packaged...