ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,891, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Enumeration process for determining a communication protocol supported by a host device" was invented by Nihilesh K B (Coimbatore, India), Prithviraj Sengupta (Bengaluru, India) and Ankit Rajani (Raipur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accessory device includes a protocol analysis system that executes an enumeration process to identify whether a host device, to which the accessory device is connected, supports a first communication protocol or a second communication protocol. If the protocol analysis system initially determines the host dev...