ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,121, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).
"Vol compliant I2C isolation scheme" was invented by Liam Joseph White (Patrickswell, Ireland) and Mark Gerard Finnan (Mungret, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are devices, methods and techniques for preventing communication blockage caused by latching in directional isolated buffers while also complying with the requirements of various communication protocols such as I2C, SMBus and PMBus. These devices use techniques based on digital state machines to comply with the requirements of these communication protoco...