ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,578, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication system" was invented by Akihiro Ota (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An asynchronous serial data communication circuit includes a clock signal generator configured to generate a clock signal, a storage configured to store the temperature characteristics of the frequency of the clock signal in a non-volatile manner, and a communicator configured to perform asynchronous serial data communication based on the clock signal and to transmit the temperature characteristics of the frequency of the clock signal stored in the storage."

The patent wa...