ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,160, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Shenzhen Xhorse Electronics Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Integrated transceiver circuit" was invented by Yongfeng Xi (Shenzhen, China), Chenglong Li (Shenzhen, China), Yuan He (Shenzhen, China), Yijie Hao (Shenzhen, China), Guozhong Cao (Shenzhen, China) and Xubin Zhao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an integrated transceiver circuit, which can be applied to signal transceiving between an external control device and an external diagnostic device. A communication channel between each GPIO port of the external control device and any OBD terminal is constructed by usin...