ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,268, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Device and method for adaptive bus protocol" was invented by Ingoo Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngwook Noh (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kwangsoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods are disclosed. The apparatus includes a bus master including processing circuitry and a bus interface. The processing circuitry is configured to control operation of the bus master such that the bus master transmits a first address to a bus slave through a bus in a first mode and to transmit a second address havi...