ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,901, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Semiconductor devices having parallel-to-serial converters therein" was invented by Hyunyoon Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Eunseok Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngdon Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaeduk Han (Seoul, South Korea), Hyuntae Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jeonghyu Yang (Seoul, South Korea) and Sanghun Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel-to-serial converter includes first to fourth input nodes configured to receive first to fourth data input signals, respectively, and an output node configured to out...