US Patent Issued to Rambus on Aug. 26 for "Configurable, power supply voltage referenced single-ended signaling with ESD protection" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,393, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Configurable, power supply voltage referenced single-ended signaling with ESD protection" was invented by John W. Poulton (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Carl W. Werner (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single-ended data transmission system transmits a signal having a signal voltage that is referenced to a power supply voltage and that swings above and below the power supply voltage. The power supply voltage is coupled to a power supply rail that also serves as a signal return path. The signal voltage is der...