ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,364, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).
"Control chip and control method thereof" was invented by Jen-Chih Liu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Chieh-Sheng Tu (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control chip providing power to a sink device and including a connection port, an encoder, a decoder, and a control circuit is provided. The connection port provides an output voltage and an inquiry signal to the sink device, and receives an acknowledgement signal provided by the sink device. The encoder generates the inquiry signal. The decoder decodes the acknowledge...