ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,705, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Frame-based, low power interfaces between devices with different I/O signals" was invented by Mustafa Ulvi Erdogan (Allen, Texas), Suzanne Mary Vining (Plano, Texas), Bharath Kumar Singareddy (Bangalore, India) and Douglas Edward Wente (Murphy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High-speed data communication devices, e.g., repeaters, interfacing between a host and a peripheral operate such that high-speed components except for a host-side squelch detector are set or maintained in a deactivated state during an idle period of a micro frame. In an example, a sta...