ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,849, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Universal serial bus voltage discharge" was invented by Arun Khamesra (Bangalore, India), Hariom Rai (Bangalore, India) and Pulkit Shah (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for discharge of a universal serial bus voltage. A determination is made that the universal serial bus voltage has exceeded a threshold. Accordingly, initiation of a discharge operation is triggered to discharge the universal serial bus voltage. The discharge operation includes applying incrementally increasing voltage reference values accor...