Patents by Inventor Daniel Van Berkom

Daniel Van Berkom has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Multi-chip addressing for the I2C bus
    Patent number: 6629172
    Abstract: The present invention is a system for assigning unique addresses to multiple devices attached to an I2C bus. When multiple devices share the same I2C address, the master device is unable to communicate with each device individually. Therefore, a circuit enable input is created to individually activate each device. Once a device is activated, the master device may communicate to the device a unique I2C bus address, after which the activated device only responds to the new address. Each device initially sharing the same address is activated individually until all devices have been assigned a unique address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2003
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Anders Andersson, Daniel Van Berkom