ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,613, issued on March 24, was assigned to MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Detection of an error condition on a serial data bus" was invented by Robin Jonah Solomon (Chennai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A controller is provided that includes a serial data (SDA) line interface to connect the controller to an SDA line of a two-wire, shared, serial data bus. The controller includes a circuitry to provide output data for transfer on to the SDA line via the output SDA pad buffer. The controller includes a logic circuit that is external to the circuitry, and that monitors data on the SDA line while the output data is ...