ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,204, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Suzhou MetaBrain Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Mode switching circuit and method, expansion connector, and PCIe card" was invented by Sanxia Chen (Suzhou, China), Tiejun Liu (Suzhou, China), Jing Ji (Suzhou, China) and Peiqiang Dong (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mode switching circuit is disclosed. An input terminal of a first switching circuit is configured to be connected to a first reverse differential pin of the connector, a first output terminal of the first switching circuit is configured to be connected to a first reset in-place terminal of a PCIe de...