ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,115, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Multi-interface apparatus" was invented by Timothy Nicholas Hay (Cambridge, Great Britain), Endre Papp (Cambridge, Great Britain), Richard Anthony Lane (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Pedro Ochsendorf Portugal (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a plurality of interfaces, each couplable to a respective one of a plurality of processing circuitries either in a higher criticality compliance state or a lower criticality compliance state. Each interface can receive from its respective processing circuitry interrupt sign...