ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,539, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Switchable termination resistance circuit" was invented by Guillaume Mouret (Portet-sur-Garonne, France), Alexis Nathanael Huot-Marchand (Labastidette, France) and Soufiane Serser (Toulouse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising: a driving circuit; a switchable termination resistance circuit configured to selectively provide a resistance based on an output of the driving circuit; wherein the output of the driving circuit is provided by a parallel arrangement of a first branch having a first switch and a second branch having a second switch, w...