Computer architecture
Ajay V. Bhatt: inventions and patents
Known for Universal Serial Bus (USB)Nationality Indian-AmericanBorn 6 September 1957
Ajay V. Bhatt, born in Bangalore, led an Intel team that helped establish the Universal Serial Bus as a standard interface, with the first specification released in 1995, according to his Padma award citation. The European Patent Office named him and four Intel colleagues winners of the 2013 European Inventor Award for USB. His citation also credits him with work on AGP, PCI Express and Thunderbolt, and over 132 US and international patents.1,2
Patents
EP 0789867 B13,2Method and apparatus for dynamically determining and managing connection topology of a hierarchical serial bus assembly
- Filed
- 31 October 1995
- Granted
- 7 December 2011
- Assignee
- Intel Corporation
- Co-inventors
- Shaun Knoll, Jeff Charles Morriss, Shelagh Callahan, Sudarshan Bala Cadambi
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Inventions
- Universal Serial Bus (USB), 1995. A connection interface that recognises and runs new devices automatically when plugged into a computer.2,1
Recognition
- 2013 European Inventor Award, non-European countries category (with the Intel USB team)2
- Padma Shri, Government of India1
Sources
- Government of India, Padma Awards, Padma Awards citation, Ajay V. Bhatt (accessed 2026-10-27)
- European Patent Office, Ajay V. Bhatt, Bala Sudarshan Cadambi, Jeff Morriss, Shaun Knoll, Shelagh Callahan (accessed 2026-10-27)
- Google Patents, EP0789867B1 Dynamically determining and managing connection topology of a hierarchical serial bus assembly (accessed 2026-10-27)