US Patent Issued to Alpha Networks on Sept. 1 for "Circuit for status monitoring, and fault recovery and isolation for inter-integrated circuit (I 2 C) bus, and method implemented by the same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,661, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Alpha Networks Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Circuit for status monitoring, and fault recovery and isolation for inter-integrated circuit (I 2 C) bus, and method implemented by the same" was invented by Peng-Fei Song (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Xiao-Gang Luo (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit for status monitoring, and fault recovery and isolation for an I2C bus is provided. The I2C bus is electrically connected to a master device and a plurality of slave devices. Each of the slave devices has an address. The circuit includes a receiver unit, a decoder unit, and a troubleshooting un...