US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics Application, STMicroelectronics on March 25 for "Microcontroller and corresponding method of operation" (Italian, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,844, issued on March 25, was assigned to STMicroelectronics Application GmbH (Aschheim-Dornach, Germany) and STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).

"Microcontroller and corresponding method of operation" was invented by Giuseppe Cavallaro (Catania, Italy) and Fred Rennig (Nandlstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment a microcontroller includes a processing unit and a deserial-serial peripheral interface (DSPI) module, wherein the deserial-serial peripheral interface module is coupleable to a communication bus configured to operate according to a selected communication protocol, wherein the processin...