US Patent Issued to Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology on Dec. 16 for "Potentiometer device and method for determining a number of closed dip switches" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,421, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology (Beijing).

"Potentiometer device and method for determining a number of closed dip switches" was invented by Xiaoping Tian (Beijing), Changkuan Zou (Beijing), Yao Fu (Beijing), Yuqing Zhang (Beijing), Chenwei Tian (Beijing) and Lei Du (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A potentiometer device and a method for determining a number of closed DIP switches is provided, which belongs to the field of potentiometers. A DIP switch structure is connected in parallel with a potentiometer. The DIP switch structure at least includes a branch circuit formed ...