US Patent Issued to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT on Nov. 3 for "Host device, slave device, and host-slave system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,032, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Host device, slave device, and host-slave system" was invented by Tadashi Ono (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The host device supplies power with a first voltage to the slave device through the first power supply line, instructs the slave device through the signal line to check compatibility with a power input with a second voltage lower than the first voltage, and instructs the slave device on voltage switch through the signal line when the slave device is compatible with the power input with the second voltage. Wh...