ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,625, issued on April 15, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).
"Driver circuit" was invented by Teruo Jo (Tokyo), Munehiko Nagatani (Tokyo) and Hideyuki Nosaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The driver circuit includes DC cut capacitors, an input buffer, input termination resistors connected in series between differential input signal terminals and an ESD protection circuit connected to a connection point of the input terminal resistors. The ESD protection circuit includes diodes."
The patent was filed on July 21, 2020, under Application No. 18/005,938.
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