ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,878, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Signaling over RC-dominated transmission lines" was invented by John Poulton (Durham, N.C.), Sanquan Song (Santa Clara, Calif.), Xi Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Walker Turner (Durham, N.C.), Yoshinori Nishi (Santa Clara, Calif.) and John M. Wilson (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides a signaling link that overcomes or at least reduces the limitations of RC-dominated signaling wires, improving both the bandwidth and the power consumption of signaling circuits. Both an AC and a DC signaling link are disclosed. In one example, a s...