US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Dec. 9 for "Device and methods for functional descriptor-based DMA controller" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,570, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Device and methods for functional descriptor-based DMA controller" was invented by Yong Yuenyongsgool (Gilbert, Ariz.), Andreas Reiter (Feldkirchen-Westerham, Germany), Stephen Bowling (Chandler, Ariz.), Anton Alkhimenok (Phoenix) and Tim Phoenix (Pepperell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microcontroller may include a DMA controller, a pattern matching circuit and a memory. The DMA controller may read a first descriptor word in the memory at a location addressed by a first descriptor pointer, and may move an input word from a location in the m...