US Patent Issued to Elmos Semiconductor on April 15 for "Gateway for connection to a host processor and multiple slaves and method for operating the gateway" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,863, issued on April 15, was assigned to Elmos Semiconductor SE (Dortmund, Germany).

"Gateway for connection to a host processor and multiple slaves and method for operating the gateway" was invented by Thomas Leitner (Dortmund, Germany), Jens Voigt (Dortmund, Germany) and Michael Kuttner (Dortmund, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gateway for connection to a host processor and multiple slaves, which are organized in a point-to-point (P2P) topology, is provided. The gateway has an independent channel for each of the slaves, and the gateway can receive multiple control signals, each including at least one control signal for a p...