ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,409, issued on March 24, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).
"A 2 B cable length detection" was invented by Joseph David Tarkoff (Somerville, Mass.), Praveen Philip (Millis, Mass.) and Md Kamruzzaman Shuvo (Norwood, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of automatically detecting delay due to cable length between network nodes coupled to a two-wire communication bus of a network. The method includes establishing, by a first node of the network, a first specified delay value of a variable delay setting; discovering a next node on the communication bus using a variable delay setting including the delay set...