ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,797, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Silicon Laboratories Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Interrupt latency and error resilient full-duplex SPI driver" was invented by Simon Beaudoin (Beloeil, Canada), Yacin Belmihoub-Martel (Montreal, Canada), Francois Killeen (Laval, Canada), Damien Riegel (Montreal, Canada) and Alexandre Autotte Portelance (St. Hubert, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of transmitting data between a host and a peripheral device using Serial Peripheral Interface protocol is disclosed. The host and peripheral device redefine the interrupt signal so that it serves as a traditional interrupt signal ...