US Patent Issued to Apple on April 22 for "Signaling of time for communication between integrated circuits using multi-drop bus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,054, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Signaling of time for communication between integrated circuits using multi-drop bus" was invented by Helena Deirdre O'Shea (San Jose, Calif.), Matthias Sauer (San Jose, Calif.) and Jorge L Rivera Espinoza (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to including information in a data packet transmitted by a transmitting integrated circuit (e.g., SOC) to account for a time delay associated with an unsuccessful arbitration attempt to send the data packet over a multi-drop bus. The unsuccessful arbitration attempt by the integrated circuit m...