ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,310, issued on May 27, was assigned to BRIGHT TOWARD INDUSTRIAL Co. LTD (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Multi-channel switch device" was invented by Tzu-Hsu Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Wen-Cheng Lin (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-channel switch device is provided. The multi-channel switch device includes a first-stage switch circuit, at least one second-stage switch circuit, and multiple third-stage switch circuits. The first-stage switch circuit includes a first common-mode node, a first input/output terminal, and at least one first-stage connection terminal. The second-stage switch circuit includes a second common-...