ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,778, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Ampere Computing LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Advanced initialization bus (AIB)" was invented by Sandeep Brahmadathan (Dublin, Calif.) and Danh La (Ho Chi Minh, Viet Nam).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for an advanced initialization bus (AIB) are presented. In an aspect, an AIB master sends, to an AIB slave, a serial clock over a first signal line, and performs a read operation with the AIB slave. Performing the read operation comprises sending a read command to the AIB slave via a bus comprising at least one bidirectional input/output (I/O) channel, each I/O channel having i...