ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,683, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Serial peripheral interface with in-band interrupts" was invented by Balaji Bhaskar Kulkarni (Bangalore, India), Manish Rajendra Mehta (Bangalore, India) and Sumeet Kumar Sahu (Berhampur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to integrated circuits. In some aspects, a first device may identify an incoming request. The first device may transmit, to a second device via a serial peripheral interface (SPI) with in-band interrupts (IBIs), an interrupt based at least in part on the incoming request, wherein the inte...