ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,715, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Low latency serial bus" was invented by Win Naing Maung (Plano, Texas), Roy Wojciechowski (Round Rock, Texas) and James Skidmore (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A serial bus control circuit includes a link layer control circuit. The link layer control circuit is configured to control isochronous data transfer over a serial bus. The link layer control circuit includes an isochronous cycle timer configured to provide a cycle frame that is less than 125 microseconds in duration. The link layer control circuit can be configured to set the isochronous ...