ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,648, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Termination circuit and semiconductor circuit" was invented by Yoshinori Tanaka (Tokyo) and Takanori Saeki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A termination circuit including: a first circuit provided in a first path that couples a first signal terminal and a first power supply node, the first circuit being configured to enable the first path; a second circuit provided in a second path that couples the first signal terminal and a second power supply node, the second circuit being configured to enable the second path; and a con...