US Patent Issued to Texas Instruments on Feb. 4 for "Methods and apparatus to detect L2 entry and reset in universal serial bus repeaters" (Indian, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,602, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).

"Methods and apparatus to detect L2 entry and reset in universal serial bus repeaters" was invented by Anant Kamath (Bangalore, India), Suzanne M. Vining (Plano, Texas), Rakesh Hariharan (Bangalore, India), Mark Wentroble (Plano, Texas), Christopher Rodrigues (Bangalore, India) and Prajwala P (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example apparatus includes: a pullup circuit coupled to a first USB terminal; a first pulldown circuit coupled to the first USB terminal; a second pulldown circuit coupled to a second USB terminal; a third pulldown c...