ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,556, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Communication protocol for die to die interface" was invented by Joachim Josef Maria Kruecken (Munich) and Andreas Laudenbach (Haag, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A receiver circuit receives an input voltage waveform from a single wire and generates an output bit stream. The receiver includes a voltage determination circuit which indicates whether a voltage level of the input voltage waveform has one of a high level that is higher than a high voltage threshold, a low level that is lower than a low voltage threshold, or a mid level that is between the h...