US Patent Issued to Intel on July 15 for "Selection of communication protocol for management bus" (Oregon, Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,938, issued on July 15, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Selection of communication protocol for management bus" was invented by Janusz Jurski (Beaverton, Ore.), Amit Srivastava Kumar (Folsom, Calif.), Matthew A. Schnoor (Hillsboro, Ore.), Myron Loewen (Berthoud, Colo.) and Tim McKee (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a controller for a system management bus. The controller may be to: detect a trigger event associated with the system management bus; in response to a detection of the trigger event, transmit a broadcast address on the system management bus, where the broadcast add...