US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on March 31 for "Contact cleaning for differential communication systems" (Belgian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,532, issued on March 31, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Contact cleaning for differential communication systems" was invented by Manuel Hortensia L Meyers (Leuven, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transceiver circuit that includes circuits for cleaning oxidation from input and output pins is disclosed. During a first phase of a cleaning operation, a first cleaner circuit may maintain floating input pins at a voltage level less than a cleaning voltage that is greater than an operating supply voltage. During a second phase of the cleaning operation, the first cleaner circuit may c...