ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,832, issued on June 17, was assigned to Schneider Electric Systems USA Inc. (Foxborough, Mass.).
"Universal serial bus (USB) backplane" was invented by Krishnamohan Botsa (Hyderabad, India) and Shahid Ansari (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-speed scalable backplane enables communications between a central processing unit (CPU) module and field input/output (I/O) and/or communication modules. The backplane comprises a root hub associated with the CPU module. The backplane also includes a plurality of Universal Serial Bus (USB) hubs sequentially coupled to each other and arranged according to the tiered architect...