Patents by Inventor Melissa Marie Watkins

Melissa Marie Watkins 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).

  • Receive mode upon expiration of UART transmit start BIT delay
    Patent number: 9892080
    Abstract: Signaling to control transmit/receive mode transitions of a serial half-duplex transceiver coupled externally to an integrated circuit is provided by the integrated circuit separately from a host processor of the integrated circuit with which the transceiver communicates. This can avoid slow transceiver turn-around times that may be associated with host processor control of the mode transitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Schuyler T. Patton, Jr., Punya Prakash, Melissa Marie Watkins, Saqib Nadeem Mohammad, Bradley James Griffis
  • CONTROL OF TX/RX MODE IN SERIAL HALF-DUPLEX TRANSCEIVER SEPARATELY FROM COMMUNICATING HOST
    Publication number: 20160098373
    Abstract: Signaling to control transmit/receive mode transitions of a serial half-duplex transceiver coupled externally to an integrated circuit is provided by the integrated circuit separately from a host processor of the integrated circuit with which the transceiver communicates. This can avoid slow transceiver turn-around times that may be associated with host processor control of the mode transitions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Schuyler T. Patton, JR., Punya Prakash, Melissa Marie Watkins, Saqib Nadeem Mohammad, Bradley James Griffis
  • Controling Tx/Rx mode in serial half-duplex UART separately from host
    Patent number: 9246534
    Abstract: Signaling to control transmit/receive mode transitions of a serial half-duplex transceiver coupled externally to an integrated circuit is provided by the integrated circuit separately from a host processor of the integrated circuit with which the transceiver communicates. This can avoid slow transceiver turn-around times that may be associated with host processor control of the mode transitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Schuyler T. Patton, Punya Prakash, Melissa Marie Watkins, Saqib Nadeem Mohammad, Bradley James Griffis
  • CONTROL OF TX/RX MODE IN SERIAL HALF-DUPLEX TRANSCEIVER SEPARATELY FROM COMMUNICATING HOST
    Publication number: 20150270863
    Abstract: Signaling to control transmit/receive mode transitions of a serial half-duplex transceiver coupled externally to an integrated circuit is provided by the integrated circuit separately from a host processor of the integrated circuit with which the transceiver communicates. This can avoid slow transceiver turn-around times that may be associated with host processor control of the mode transitions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Schuyler T. Patton, JR., Punya Prakash, Melissa Marie Watkins, Saqib Nadeem Mohammad, Bradley James Griffis