US Patent Issued to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES on April 15 for "MIPI C-PHY and D-PHY interface with shared driver, equalization, and data path circuitry" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,061, issued on April 15, was assigned to SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"MIPI C-PHY and D-PHY interface with shared driver, equalization, and data path circuitry" was invented by Jhankar Malakar (Corvallis, Ore.) and Arindam Raychaudhuri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Imaging circuitry may include half-driver sub-circuits configured to support Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) D-PHY mode and C-PHY mode. Groups of two half-driver sub-circuits can be coupled together in the D-PHY mode, whereas groups of three half-driver sub-circuits can be coupled together in the C-PHY mode. Each...