US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on July 21 for "USB hub with circuitry to identify and store device response data" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,136, issued on July 21, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"USB hub with circuitry to identify and store device response data" was invented by Andrew Rogers (Tempe, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises an upstream hub port, a plurality of downstream hub ports, a hub controller, a device response memory accessible to the hub controller, and a routing system connecting (a) the upstream hub port to the plurality of downstream hub ports and (b) respective downstream hub ports to the hub controller. The routing system to communicate device responses from respective downstream hub ports to t...