US Patent Issued to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions on March 17 for "Data communication using optical UART links" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,045, issued on March 17, was assigned to SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp. (Rancho Cordova, Calif.).

"Data communication using optical UART links" was invented by Hoeun Ham (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application is directed to communicating telemetry and debugging data of a memory system using optical signals. An enclosed memory device has an optical indicator and receives a data request. In response to the data request, the enclosed memory device obtains internal activity data stored in the memory device, encodes the internal activity data into an electrical signal, and drives the optical indicator with...