ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,780, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Interface circuit, control method thereof, chip, and terminal device" was invented by Zhaohua Qian (Shanghai), Jingjing Wang (Shenzhen, China), Yanqin Chen (Shanghai) and Jiandong Ke (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface circuit, a method for controlling the interface circuit, a chip, and a terminal device are provided. The interface circuit includes a first PMOS transistor, an input signal control circuit, a bias circuit, a signal input end, and an input/output end. The bias circuit includes a substrate bias voltage generation end ...