ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,843, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Processor debugging over an interconnect fabric" was invented by Michael James Becht (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Clinton E. Bubb (Milton, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for performing processor debugging over an internal interconnect fabric are described. An example techniques includes obtaining interconnect fabric traffic comprising one or more debugging commands for a first processor within a computing system. The interconnect fabric traffic with the one or more debugging commands is converted into debugging traffic...