ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,380, issued on May 6, was assigned to Analog Devices International UnLtd. Co. (Limerick, Ireland).

"Power saving encoding for isolated galvanically data transmission" was invented by Andreas Koch (Wiesbaden, Germany) and George Pieter Reitsma (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data channel includes a power constrained first channel portion to receive energy from a limited power source and a non-power constrained second channel portion to receive energy from a different power source than the first channel portion. The first channel portion includes an ADC circuit to output an ADC data sample, a first transmitter ci...