ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,870, issued on July 14, was assigned to Synopsys Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Low power area efficient adaptive load compensation" was invented by Kailash Kumar (Noida, India), Prateek Singh (Noida, India) and Manoj Kumar (Greater Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for load compensation are presented to support a wide range of capacitive loads on a pad coupled to an I/O transmitter. The I/O transmitter includes I/O architecture coupled to a pad and a calibration circuit coupled to the I/O architecture. The calibration circuit includes sensing circuitry, pulse generation circuitry coupled to the sensing circ...