US Patent Issued to Dover Microsystems on Jan. 20 for "Systems and methods for stalling upstream component" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,220, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dover Microsystems Inc. (Wayland, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for stalling upstream component" was invented by Steven Milburn (Cranston, R.I.) and Gregory T. Sullivan (Rockport, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for stalling a host processor. In some embodiments, the host processor may be caused to initiate one or more selected transactions, wherein the one or more selected transactions comprise a bus transaction. The host processor may be prevented from completing the one or more selected transactions, to thereby stall the host processor."

The patent was filed on Dec. ...