ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,638, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System and method of controlling communication interface to avoid power distribution resonance conflict" was invented by Joshua Siegel (Austin, Texas), James Andrew Welker (Leander, Texas) and Michael Zimin (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A resonance avoidance system including a resonance avoidance controller configured to insert a delay between sequential transactions on a communication interface separated by an inactive period to avoid stimulating a power distribution network resonance. The resonance avoidance controller may be configured to insert t...