US Patent Issued to Arm on Sept. 30 for "Method and apparatus for efficient packing of flow control units" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,156, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambrige, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus for efficient packing of flow control units" was invented by Apurva Patel (Austin, Texas), Ashok Kumar Tummala (Cedar Park, Texas), Ranjini Mysore Nagaraju (Georgetown, Texas) and Mark Gerald LaVine (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism is provided efficient packing of network flits in a data processing network. Transaction messages for transmission across a communication link of a data processing network are analyzed to determine a group of transaction messages to be passed to a packing logic block for increased pa...