H04L 12/40169
Flexible bus arrangements
Official title: {Flexible bus arrangements (arrangements for maintenance or administration involving management of faults; events, alarms H04L41/06; automatic restoration of network faults H04L41/0654)}
H04L12/40169 (Flexible bus arrangements) appears on 1,152 US grants and 1,240 published applications in this corpus.
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Elevator communication system3 Sep 2026US 2026/0257886 A1Kone Corporation
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- Method & apparatus for data exchange in data processing installations195US 5,448,561 ARobert Bosch GmbH · 1995
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