ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,074, issued on April 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Mechanisms to utilize communication fabric via multi-port architecture" was invented by Sergio Kolor (Haifa, Israel), Sandeep Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.) and James Vash (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed pertaining to utilizing a communication fabric via multiple ports. An agent circuit includes a plurality of command-and-data ports that couple the agent circuit to a communication fabric coupled to a plurality of hardware components that includes a plurality of memory controller circuits that facilitate access to a memory....