ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,801, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ARTERIS INC. (Campbell, Calif.).

"System and method for transaction broadcast in a network on chip" was invented by Syed Ijlal Ali Shah (San Jose, Calif.), John Coddington (Cedar Park, Texas) and Benoit De Lescure (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A broadcast adapter in a network-on-chip (NoC) is used for broadcasting transactions in the form of packets from an initiator to multiple targets and for receiving responses from the targets that are combined and sent to the initiator. The transactions originate from an initiator and are send, using the NoC, to broadcast adapters using...