ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,231, issued on July 1, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electronic system, monitoring chip, and operation method" was invented by Jian Jhong Zeng (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Shih Chin Chi (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Meng Yang Lu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Neng Hsien Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system includes a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The first electronic device includes a monitoring chip and a hub chip. The monitoring chip is coupled to an upstream port of the hub chip through a first connection and is coupled to the hub chip through a second connection. Th...