US Patent Issued to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY on April 22 for "Detection method and detection device for determining whether communication protocol is UART, I2C BUS, or SPI" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,446, issued on April 22, was assigned to NUVOTON TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan).

"Detection method and detection device for determining whether communication protocol is UART, I2C BUS, or SPI" was invented by Kuo-Chen Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection method is provided to identify the communication protocol being used between a serial communication interface and an external device. The protocols include URAT, I2C bus, and SPI. The serial communication interface includes a first pin and a second pin. The first pin is shared by the transmission line of UART, the serial clock line of I2C,...