ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,445, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to INDUSTRY-UNIVERSITY COOPERATION FOUNDATION HANYANG UNIVERSITY (Seoul, South Korea).

"Low power PAM-4 output transmitter" was invented by CHang Sik Yoo (Seoul, South Korea), Hyeong Min Seo (Seoul, South Korea) and Ji Yun Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A low power PAM-4 output transmitter is disclosed. The lower power PAM-4 output transmitter comprises a first source series terminated SST branch configured to include unit cells having transistors which are selectively activated in response to an input signal outputted from an encoder; a second SST branch configured to in...