US Patent Issued to Icron Technologies on May 20 for "Techniques for deconflicting USB traffic in an extension environment" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,785, issued on May 20, was assigned to Icron Technologies Corp. (Burnaby, Canada).

"Techniques for deconflicting USB traffic in an extension environment" was invented by Mohsen Nahvi (City of North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a system is provided for communicating USB information via an extension medium. The system comprises an upstream facing port device (UFP device) and a downstream facing port device (DFP device). The UFP device and the DFP device are communicatively coupled via a non-USB extension medium, and allow a host device communicatively coupled to the UFP device and a USB device c...