ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,377, issued on April 29, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Cable fault detection" was invented by Arihant Jain (Milpitas, Calif.) and Ashwin Ramachandran (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a fault with a cable having a resistor divider couple to the cable. The method includes converting a first sense voltage from the resistor divider network to a first digital code, determining whether the first digital code falls within a first range of digital codes corresponding to a first fault associated with the cable, and responsive to determining that the first digital code falls within t...