ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,670, issued on April 7, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Address length selection for inter-integrated circuit (I2C) communications" was invented by Saravana Babu C (Bangalore, India), Aasaithambi Durairajan (Panruti, India), Amit Gil (Zichron Yaakov, Israel) and Sang Tran (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device includes a processing system configured to receive, via an inter-integrated circuit (I2C) bus, one or more scan acknowledgement messages respectively associated with one or more secondary devices and to send, via the I2C bus, one or more address assignment messages to the one or more secondary de...