ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,737, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Eldec Aerospace Corp. (Lynwood, Wash.).
"Transparent serial peripheral interface for use with analog-to-digital converter" was invented by Gregory F. Cederlind (Woodinville, Wash.) and Jeff Lamping (Snohomish, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a serial peripheral interface (SPI) enabling the apparatus to communicate with an external component over an SPI bus. An analog to digital (A/D) converter is connected to the SPI and communicates with the external component over the SPI bus. A memory is connected to the SPI. The memory has a predetermined storage area for data ena...