US Patent Issued to ADVANCED DEVICES on June 10 for "Apparatus and methods for generating message signaled interrupts associated with peripheral components" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,824, issued on June 10, was assigned to ADVANCED DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Apparatus and methods for generating message signaled interrupts associated with peripheral components" was invented by Lianji Cheng (Suzhou, China), Xiao Han (Suzhou, China) and Qing Li (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes logic circuitry, such as an interrupt controller, that serially arbitrates among a plurality of incoming interrupt requests for a target device and produces a selected incoming interrupt request. The logic generates a message signaled interrupt (MSI) message for the target device based on the select...