ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,516, issued on July 28, was assigned to SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Receiver circuit and optical receiver circuit" was invented by Yoshiyuki Sugimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Keiji Tanaka (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver circuit includes: a constant current circuit to generate second paired current signals according to first paired current signals; a current splitter circuit to output third differential signals having amplitudes smaller than the second paired current signals, from a first and second output nodes; first and second load resistor elements connected between a DC voltage node and th...