ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,021, issued on April 15, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (HsinChu, Taiwan).

"Circuitry that can perform fast mode switching" was invented by Pin-Hung Lin (HsinChu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuitry includes a multi-mode switching multiplexer, a control circuit and a receiver. The multi-mode switching multiplexer is arranged to receive multiple mode settings, and select one of the multiple mode settings as an output mode setting. The control circuit is arranged to generate a mode switching signal to control the multi-mode switching multiplexer. The receiver is arranged to set its internal components accordin...