ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,341, issued on May 13, was assigned to STMicroelectronics S.r.l. (Agrate Brianza, Italy).
"Time division multiplexing hub" was invented by Matteo Quartiroli (Certosa di Pavia, Italy) and Alessandra Maria Rizzo Piazza Roncoroni (Abbiategrasso, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a control circuit, a primary sensor device coupled to the control circuit, and a plurality of groups of secondary sensor devices coupled to the primary sensor device. The primary sensor device receives a master clock signal from the control device and outputs, to each group of secondary sensor devices, a respective secondary clo...