US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Sept. 2 for "Voltage detector in data communication interface" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,622, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Voltage detector in data communication interface" was invented by Bengt Stefan Gustavsson (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.), Louis Dominic Oliveira (San Diego), Tomer Saraf (Jamaica Plain, Mass.), Robert John Littrell (Belmont, Mass.), Ganesh Kiran (San Diego) and William Wei-Ting Kuo (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for detecting a voltage level on a data communication interface between a slave device and a host device are disclosed. Based on the detected voltage level, the slave device may respond to the host device on the data communication interface a...