ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,838, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Communication device" was invented by Shinya Masuda (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication device includes a communication line, a master node, and a slave node. At least one of the master node or the slave node is configured to switch to either a first state in which feedback input of a bus voltage of the communication line is received to control a slew rate of the bus voltage to a desired value, and a second state in which input of a predetermined control signal is received to control the slew rate of the bus voltage to a desired value."
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