ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,483, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Auradine Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Signal processing and transmission in electronic circuits" was invented by David Carlson (Haslet, Texas) and Tao Xu (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit (IC) chip receives an input signal on a bus connecting a number of IC chips in series. The IC chip is one of the number of IC chips. The IC chip performs a combining operation and an inverting operation on a signal produced by the IC chip and the input signal to generate an output signal. The IC chip sends the output signal to a next chip of the number of IC chips on the bus....