US Patent Issued to Prolific Technology on Sept. 1 for "Method for inter-integrated circuit (I2C) address allocation" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,459, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Prolific Technology Inc. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Method for inter-integrated circuit (I2C) address allocation" was invented by Chia-Chang Hsu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Wei-Shu Hsu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Ren-Yuan Yu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for inter-intergrated circuit (I2C) address allocation includes the master device sending a notification signal to the plurality of slave devices via the bus, and after one of the plurality of slave devices receives the notification signal, the slave device generating a delay period, and detecting the serial data (...