ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,367, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to RICHTEK TECHNOLOGY CORP. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Bus configuration system and method thereof" was invented by Ching-Yi Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Hsing-Shen Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Bo-Jyun Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bus configuration system includes a plurality of driver integrated circuits (ICs) coupled sequentially on a daisy chain, and a bus controller coupled to the plurality of driver ICs. Each driver IC includes a plurality of ports. The bus controller is used to generate a port definition code for configuring each port of the each dri...