ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,546, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Self-healing low speed serial interface" was invented by Rajesh Bhaskar (Bangalore, India), George Vergis (Portland, Ore.), Myron Loewen (Berthoud, Colo.) and Matthew A. Schnoor (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method to monitor status of a serial data signal on a low speed serial bus is provided. A controller configures a watchdog timer in each target device, sends a heart-beat command to all of the target devices over the low speed serial bus prior to the expiration of the watchdog timer and issues a broadcast read command to...