ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,293, issued on June 3, was assigned to Texas Instruments Inc. (Dallas).
"Communication interface controller with output monitoring" was invented by Ashish Vanjari (Sugar Land, Texas), Mohammed Arif (Bangalore, India) and Shailesh Ganapat Ghotgalkar (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In described examples, an integrated circuit includes a first pin, a second pin, a processor, a bus monitor, a clock circuit, and a transceiver. The processor provides to the transceiver and the bus monitor an instruction that indicates an instructed target address, a read/write flag, and a memory address. The transceiver provides to the firs...