US Patent Issued to Rohm on July 21 for "Communication system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,609, issued on July 21, was assigned to Rohm Co. Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Communication system" was invented by Hideki Matsubara (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A communication system is configured to be capable of executing an address assignment process including: a first process for detecting presence/absence of an identification current input by means of an identification current detection unit when a constant current supply has generated an identification current output with a switch and a second transistor in an off state; and a second process for repeatedly executing the first process while, with respect to a slave am...