US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 3 for "Shared conductors for bidirectional signals" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,026, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Shared conductors for bidirectional signals" was invented by Benjamin Eng Schanz (Redmond, Wash.), Garrett Douglas Blankenburg (Sammamish, Wash.) and Keegan Daniel Griffee (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a computer system comprises transmitting first and second signals between a device interface and a first device over an elongate first conductor, the second signal including content of higher frequency than the first signal; transmitting a timing signal over an elongate second conductor, between a device ...