ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,596, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Data processing device and data processing method" was invented by Yasuhiro Kitamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method capable of outputting appropriate multi-level signals at desired multiple levels in data transmission based on multi-level signals with a simple configuration. A first to M-th drivers to which control signals are input and that output voltages corresponding to the control signals are provided for a transmission line through...