ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,320, issued on May 27, was assigned to RichWave Technology Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Driving circuit having a switch module to be capable of turning off a conductive path" was invented by Chih-Sheng Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Tien-Yun Peng (Taipei, Taiwan) and Hsien-Huang Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A driving circuit includes a first reference terminal, a second reference terminal, at least one input terminal, an output terminal, a first transistor, a second transistor, a switch module, and at least one control signal terminal. The at least one input terminal receives at least one input signal. The output terminal ...