ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,445, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Differential transmitter circuitry with ESD circuitry" was invented by Dolphin Abessolo Bidzo (Nijmegen, Netherlands), Chinmayee Kumari Panigrahi (Bangalore, India), Marcin Grad (Bemmel, Netherlands) and Paul Hendrik Cappon (Wijchen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communications circuit includes transmitter circuitry for driving a differential signal on two die terminal. The transmitter circuitry includes two drive transistors who conductivity is controlled to provide a path from a common node to each of the die terminals. A string of one or mor...