ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,941, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Read synchronization delay at subordinate device for 1 wire protocol" was invented by Nakul Manjunath (Bangalore, India), Subramanya N N (Mysore, India) and Utpal Barman (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A subordinate device includes a local clock and a protocol controller. The protocol controller is coupled to a bus that includes a data wire. The protocol controller is configured to receive, on the data wire from a principal device, a read command addressed to the subordinate device indicating initiation of a read transaction. The protocol controlle...