US Patent Issued to SERCEL on March 18 for "High-speed, half-duplex communication with standard microcontroller" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,754, issued on March 18, was assigned to SERCEL (Carquefou, France).

"High-speed, half-duplex communication with standard microcontroller" was invented by Florent Guichard (Nantes, France), Thomas Girard (Nantes, France) and Freddy Excoffier (Nantes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system includes a node configured to collect ambient data with a sensor, and a docking station configured to couple to the node and to establish a communication path with the node through only one signal along one or two wires. The node includes a first module configured to use a first data communication protocol for receiving comman...