ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,796, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS Corp. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Data transmission circuit" was invented by Takunari Hattori (Kanagawa, Japan), Tatsuya Sakae (Kanagawa, Japan) and Junichiro Shirai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a data transmission circuit that includes first and second drive circuits and an operation state control circuit. The first drive circuit drives first data that transitions or does not transition in synchronization with a clock signal. The second drive circuit drives second data that transitions at a timing when the first data does not transition in sy...