ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,018, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PAYRANGE LLC (Portland, Ore.).
"Device and method for providing external access to multi-drop bus peripheral devices" was invented by Paresh K. Patel (Camas, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a slave interface configured for coupling to a machine controller of a machine via a multi-drop bus (MDB), a host interface configured for coupling to a first peripheral device of the machine, and memory storing one or more programs to be executed by the one or more processors and comprising instructions for: registering the electronic device as a slave to the machine contr...