ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,786,021, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Flexible adaptations of short pulse width modulation (PWM) code (SPC) communication" was invented by Helmut Kock (Villach, Austria), Dirk Hammerschmidt (Finkenstein, Austria), Michael Strasser (Villach, Austria), Christoph Krall (Klagenfurt, Austria), Stefan Lanschutzer (St. Margarethen, Austria), Konrad Kapser (Graefelfing, Germany) and Tobias Werth (Villach, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The described techniques enhance the conventional SPC communication protocol in various ways to provide further flexibility for various applications whil...