US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Jan. 27 for "Dual role support for a high-speed capable USB repeater" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,023, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Dual role support for a high-speed capable USB repeater" was invented by Mark Edward Wentroble (Plano, Texas), Anant Shankar Kamath (Bengaluru, India), Rakesh Hariharan (Bengaluru, India), Prajwala P (Bengaluru, India) and Suzanne Mary Vining (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A serial bus repeater includes first and second ports adapted to be coupled to respective devices. A first termination resistor network couples to the first port. A second termination resistor network couples to the second port. A squelch detect circuit couples to the first bus ...