ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,040, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Imagination Technologies Ltd. (Kings Langley, Great Britain).
"Priority based arbitration" was invented by Casper Van Benthem (Abbots Langley, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods of arbitrating between requestors and a shared resource wherein for each processing cycle a plurality of select signals are generated and then used by decision nodes in a binary decision tree to select a requestor. The select signals are generated using valid bits and priority bits. Each valid bit corresponds to one of the requestors and indicates whether, in the processing cycle, the requestor is reques...