ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,170, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Virtual physical circuit for on-chip communication" was invented by Kar Leong Wong (Folsom, Calif.) and Satheesh Chellappan (Folsom, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for on-chip communication. A system implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes a first virtual physical (vPhy) circuit couplable to a host through a vPhy interface and a second vPhy circuit couplable to a device, on the same chip as the host, through another vPhy interface. The system further includes a vPhy-to-vPhy interface between the vPhy circ...