ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,498, issued on June 24, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Bidirectional signal conversion circuit" was invented by Leaf Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Jiun-Hung Pan (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bidirectional signal conversion circuit is configured to perform a signal conversion between a first port and a second port, and includes a switch, a first pull-up resistor, a second pull-up resistor, a first output-response enhancement circuit, and a second output-response enhancement circuit. The switch is coupled between the first port and the second port, and operates according to a bias. The ...