ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,186, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to manage termination impedance in a re-driver" was invented by Srijan Rastogi (Bengaluru, India), Douglas E. Wente (Murphy, Texas) and Mustafa U. Erdogan (Allen, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes a termination network having a first input terminal coupled to a first input/output terminal and a second input terminal coupled to a second input/output terminal. The apparatus includes transmitter circuitry having a first output terminal coupled to the first input/output terminal and a ...