ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,030, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MELEXIS TECHNOLOGIES NV (Tessenderlo, Belgium).
"Protocol for autoconfiguration of communication network" was invented by Raik Frost (Erfurt, Germany), Thomas Freitag (Erfurt, Germany), Michael Frey (Erfurt, Germany) and Heiko Leutert (Erfurt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for autoconfiguration of a plurality of nodes in a linear network allows extracting the address and position of each node. The method includes applying an identifier field for transmitting to the bus the bit sequence of the identifier of a chosen node. Then for at least for the first node to the last but one n...