ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,243, issued on July 1, was assigned to Allegro MicroSystems LLC (Manchester, N.H.).

"Method and apparatus for transmitting data concurrently with a pulse-encoded signal" was invented by Solene Bastien (Naves-Parmelan, France) and Andreas P. Friedrich (Metz-Tessy, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided for transmitting a message concurrently with a pulse-encoded signal, the method comprising: assigning an identifier to the message; transmitting an identifier of the message between every two consecutive pulses of the pulse-encoded signal until the whole message is transmitted; transmitting a first portion of a payloa...