ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,997, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon, South Korea).

"Multiplexer and serializer including the same" was invented by Jaehyeok Baek (Suwon-si, South Korea), Daehyun Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Saetbyeol Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hye-Ran Kim (Uiwang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplexer selects one of a first to a fourth data signal in response to a first to a fourth pulse. The first to fourth pulses respectively correspond to the first to fourth data signals and sequentially toggle. The multiplexer includes: (1) a NAND gate that receives the first data signal, a fo...