US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 9 for "Modified Manchester encoding for ultra-low power interfaces" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,382, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Modified Manchester encoding for ultra-low power interfaces" was invented by Shoichiro Sengoku (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates generally to an interface between a host processor device and a peripheral device, such as a camera or sensor, and, more particularly, to improving the generation of data signals with embedded clock information to be more rate-flexible and power efficient. Improved techniques are described herein to embed a clock signal into a data signal (e.g., to minimize the number of channels needed)-whi...