ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,647, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Interface circuit, digital circuit, communication module, and communication device" was invented by Kazuhiro Nakamuta (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface circuit includes a first storage circuit that holds first timer selection information indicating which of a plurality of timers is to be selected; a second circuit including a first circuit that performs a counter operation, and a register update signal generation circuit that outputs, based on an output of the first circuit, a first register update signal for updating a regi...