ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,968, issued on March 18, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Ltd. (Buckinghamshire, Great Britain).
"Serial bus protocol" was invented by Sergio Miguez Aparicio (Majadahonda, Spain) and Benjamin Thomas Sarachi (Edinburgh, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, a system includes: a primary device configured to be connected to at least one secondary device via serial bus having a data wire and a clock wire. The primary device is configured to: provide a clock signal on the clock wire; and transmit a frame comprising control bits on the serial bus, wherein a number of cont...