US Patent Issued to NXP USA on Dec. 23 for "Apparatus and method for determining a disconnection of a device from a bus" (Arizona Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,057, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Apparatus and method for determining a disconnection of a device from a bus" was invented by Kenneth Jaramillo (Gilbert, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining a disconnection of a device from a bus, the apparatus comprising: a detection unit configured to periodically poll the bus, to detect an occurrence of an indicator of disconnection; and a handling unit configured to, in response to detecting the occurrence of an indicator of disconnection a predetermined number of times within a predetermined interval, make a determination that th...