ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,157, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Tunable resistor circuits" was invented by Han Yan (Woerden, Netherlands), Jan Mulder (Houten, Netherlands) and Jan Roelof Westra (Uithoorn, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tunable termination resistor circuit associated with a line driver in a line on-chip is provided. The circuit includes a first current source and a first resistor coupled to the first current source and the line. The circuit also includes a first diode comprising a first terminal and a second terminal, the first terminal being coupled to the first re...