ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,861, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Flexible hub for handling multi-sensor data" was invented by Rajat Sagar (Allen, Texas), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bengaluru, India), Anthony Joseph Lell (San Antonio) and Gregory Raymond Shurtz (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hub that receives sensor data streams and then distributes the data streams to the various systems that use the sensor data. A demultiplexer (demux) receives the streams, filters out undesired streams and provides desired streams to the proper multiplexer (mux) or muxes of a series of muxes. Each mux combines received streams and provi...