ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,967, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Realtek Semiconductor Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Multimedia device and operating method for system-on-chip" was invented by Chao-Min Lai (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chien-Liang Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chia-Chi Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multimedia device comprises a power input interface, a computing circuit and a load circuit. The power input interface is configured to receive an operating voltage. The computing circuit is configured to receive the operating voltage from the power input interface, and configured to output a pulse-width modulation (PWM) signal. The load circ...