ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,748, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to LAPIS Technology Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Data communication system and slave device" was invented by Kunihiro Harayama (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A master device transmits a clock signal to a first slave device together with a write data signal including write data pieces respectively corresponding to slave devices connected in cascade. Each slave device includes a buffer that receives the clock signal, outputs an amplified clock signal, and transmits the clock signal to a next stage slave device, and an information acquisition circuit that acquires information data pi...