ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,448, issued on July 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Slew rate in low-speed data communication interfaces" was invented by Sandor Farkas (Round Rock, Texas) and Bhyrav Mutnury (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit includes an inductive circuit trace and a nonlinear device. The circuit conducts a signal input to a load. The circuit trace receives the signal input at a first end of the circuit trace and provides the signal input to the load at a second end of the circuit trace. The nonlinear device is coupled at the second end and is configured to increase a voltage rise time of the signal inpu...