ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,556, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"PCI flow control with signal interception" was invented by Travis Bailey Hamilton (Cedar Park, Texas) and Charles Andrew Giefer (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing apparatus includes interception circuitry for intercepting an incoming signal corresponding to an instruction from a processor element to a PCI device. Respond circuitry provides a response to the incoming signal back to the processor element and the response is either an acceptance of the incoming signal or a refusal of the incoming signal based on a flow control betw...