ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,133, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MACRONIX INTERNATIONAL Co. LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"System for sharing status among multiple devices" was invented by Shuo-Nan Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system having a data bus, a source node device on the data bus and a group of bus node devices on the data bus. The source node device is configured to transmit a group read status command on the data bus. The bus node devices in the group are configured to respond to the group read status command in sequence, by transmitting status data on the data bus in respective, non-overlapping timing windows. The system can b...