US Patent Issued to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. on March 4 for "Enhanced safety mechanism for single wire interface" (British, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,411, issued on March 4, was assigned to ANALOG DEVICES INTERNATIONAL UNLtd. COMPANY (Limerick, Ireland).

"Enhanced safety mechanism for single wire interface" was invented by Andreas Callanan (Murroe, Ireland) and Colin Mcintosh (Newbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for providing error detection during simplex serial data transmission, as well as associated methods and systems, are disclosed. The technique is based on a readback of the serially transmitted data on the external single wire bus. The readback data is internally processed and compared to the intended transmission data. An error is flagged whe...