ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,212, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Data transmission" was invented by Neil Whyte (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Andy Brewster (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Jens Puchert (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device, comprising: a main module; a plurality of secondary modules; and a data bus configured to enable data transmission between the main module and the plurality of secondary modules over a data line of the data bus; wherein each of the plurality of secondary modules is configured with a unique secondary address used by the main module to communicate with the respective secondary...