ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,757, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"System and methods for auto-baud detection" was invented by Avinash Halageri (Karnataka, India), Preetham Rajashekaraiah Premaleela (Karnataka, India) and Swathi G. Bhat (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit may enable communication between a primary device and one or more secondary devices. The communication may utilize a Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (UART) protocol. In operation, the primary device may require information on the baud rate of the secondary device. The UART may operate in an inverted polarity mode...