ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,875, issued on July 7, was assigned to Elmos Semiconductor SE (Leverkusen, Germany).
"Modified UART interface and UART data transmission for real-time data transmission of echo data to a higher-level computer system" was invented by Dennis KreiB (Hannover, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a device perform data communication between a superordinate computer system of an ultrasonic measurement system and an associated ultrasonic sensor via a modified UART data interface. The method and device exit the UART protocol and use a special signaling protocol and a modification of the UART data interface for the duration of a...