US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Dec. 9 for "Backoff timer for in-band interrupt on an I3C bus" (Italian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,575, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Backoff timer for in-band interrupt on an I3C bus" was invented by Eyuel Zewdu Teferi (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for a slave device on a serial data bus to make an in-band interrupt request to a master device includes checking whether a backoff time stored by a backoff timer has expired. When the backoff time has not expired, the slave device refrains from initiating the in-band interrupt request to the master device in response to a start condition on the serial bus. However, when the backoff time has expired, the slave device...