US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Oct. 21 for "Device and methods for communication between electronic components" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,184, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Device and methods for communication between electronic components" was invented by Keith Curtis (Queen Creek, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a communication circuit as part of a microcontroller. One or more registers may be configured to enable communication between the communication circuit and one or more external peripherals without a CPU or other processor controlling the communication. The one or more registers may be configured to allow a specific trigger event to initiate communication between the communication cir...