ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,724, issued on June 17, was assigned to SIGMASTAR TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Fujian, China).

"Transmitter with overvoltage protection" was invented by Zhen-Yang Pang (Shanghai), Si-Xin Hong (Shanghai) and Tian-Li Qu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transmitter includes a level shifter circuit, an edge adjustment circuit and a driver. The level shifter circuit generates first signals and second signals based on an input signal, wherein a voltage range of the input signal, a voltage range of the first signals, and a voltage range of the second signals are different from each other. The edge adjustment circuit adjusts a level of a first...