US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on May 5 for "Systems and methods for operating a serial peripheral interface (SPI) network" (Swiss, Romanian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,573, issued on May 5, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Systems and methods for operating a serial peripheral interface (SPI) network" was invented by Naveen Raj (Chandler, Ariz.), Christian Pillonel (Cheyres, Switzerland), Cristian Androne (Bucharest, Romania) and Yann Johner (Preverenges, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a master device and multiple slave devices connected in a daisy chain arrangement, and configured to communicate according to a serial peripheral device interface (SPI) protocol. The master device includes circuitry to clock a series of bits into respective shif...