ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,885, issued on July 14, was assigned to Nexperia Technology (Shanghai) Ltd. (Shanghai) and Nexperia B.V. (Nijmegen, Netherlands).
"Port control in a parallel multi-port system" was invented by Yushu Lin (Danville, Calif.) and Chin-jui Lin (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parallel multiple-port system is provided, including a plurality of ports, a plurality of processors, and a memory storing software code which, when executed by the plurality of processors causes the processors to control the plurality of ports. A first processor is configured to control a first port. A second processor is configured to control ...