ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,357, issued on July 29, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for data communication bus address sharing" was invented by Kaifei Zhao (Shanghai), Lili Chen (Shanghai) and Jundong Yang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for data communication bus address sharing can include selecting, by at least one processor, one of two or more peripheral devices sharing an address of a data communication bus. The method can additionally include modulating, by the at least one processor, a duty cycle of a clock signal transmitted over the data communication bus to ...