US Patent Issued to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Feb. 18 for "Switch circuit and programmable connection chip" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,086, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Switch circuit and programmable connection chip" was invented by Jie Zhang (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Sih-Han Li (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A switching circuit includes a transmission gate, two base control sub-circuits each including a first transistor and a second transistor, a third transistor, and a fourth transistor. The transmission gate includes two I/O terminals, two gate control terminals, and two base control terminals, and is configured to conduct or not conduct the two I/O terminals according to the v...