H04L 12/40078
Bus configuration
Official title: {Bus configuration (home automation networks H04L12/2803; arrangements for maintenance or administration H04L41/00)}
H04L12/40078 (Bus configuration) appears on 212 US grants and 184 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04L- Granted patents
- 212
- Published applications
- 184
- Assignees
- 102
- Inventors
- 374
- Latest grant
- 4 Aug 2026
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| 2024 | 5 | 7 |
| 2025 | 8 | 3 |
| 2026 | 1 | 1 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- System and method for communication between a commander device and a responder device16 Sep 2025US 12,417,200 B2Stmicroelectronics Application GmbH
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- System and method for communication between a commander device and a responder device20 Nov 2025US 2025/0355824 A1Stmicroelectronics Application GmbH
- Circuit Integration2 Oct 2025US 2025/0307200 A1Televic Rail NV
- Device, especially input device, and method for changing the controlling unit for data transmission20 Mar 2025US 2025/0094377 A1
- System and method for automatically assigning an identification number to a plurality of node controllers in an irrigation system19 Dec 2024US 2024/0422025 A1Lindsay Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- System having independently addressable bus interfaces coupled to serially connected multi-ported signal distributors generating and maintaining frame based polling schedule favoring isochronous peripherals478US 5,615,404 AIntel Corporation · 1997
- Device control with topology map in a digital network288US 5,883,621 ASony Corporation · 1999
- Graphical display of an animated data stream between devices on a bus245US 5,793,366 ASony Corporation · 1998
- Automatic configuration system for mapping node addresses within a bus structure to their physical location239US 6,131,119 ASony Corporation · 2000
- Method and apparatus for calibrating an IEEE-1394 cycle master232US 6,418,150 B1Apple Computer, Inc. · 2002