ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,166, issued on July 22, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"SoC with UART interface" was invented by Chao-Min Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yu-Jen Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Hung-Wei Wang (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Huang-Lin Kuo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system on a chip (SoC) with a Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) interface includes a UART interface circuit, a detection circuit, and a control circuit. The UART interface circuit includes: a plurality of UART signal pads for receiving and transmitting signals; and a UART voltage pad for receiving an external operating voltage. The...