US Patent Issued to RASPBERRY PI on Sept. 8 for "Interface and microcontroller" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,766, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to RASPBERRY PI LTD (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Interface and microcontroller" was invented by Luke Michael Wren (Cambridge, Great Britain), Terence Leslie Mackown (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Nicholas James Francis (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An I/O circuit block comprising: a register unit; an input/output unit connected to a plurality of terminals; an instruction memory; and a state machine configured to execute a program stored in the instruction memory to transfer data between the register unit and the input/output unit. The state machine is configured to execu...