US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric on May 5 for "Protocol determination circuit and protocol switching circuit" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,572, issued on May 5, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Protocol determination circuit and protocol switching circuit" was invented by Hideyuki Amaya (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Noise immunity of a protocol determination circuit that determines a communication protocol between circuits is improved. A protocol determination circuit includes: a sampling circuit; and a majority decision circuit. The sampling circuit performs a plurality of number of times of sampling on a protocol specifying signal, the protocol specifying signal being any one of a value indicating a first communication protocol I2C and a value...