ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,473, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"System and method for centralized management of workload and parallel service of prioritized requests" was invented by Ihab Jaser (San Jose, Calif.), Jack Wynne (Los Altos, Calif.), Kwok Kong (Cupertino, Calif.), Donia Sebastian (Fair Oaks, Calif.) and Xin Guo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for scheduling memory requests including receiving a plurality of requests having a type and associating each request of the received plurality of requests with a corresponding target, which is associated with one channel...