ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,081, issued on April 15, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).
"Network credit return mechanisms" was invented by Tony Brewer (Plano, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for reducing design complexity and critical path timing challenges of credit return logic. A wide bus supports simultaneous transmission of multiple flits, one per lane of the wide bus. A source device transmitting flits on a wide bus selects from among multiple credit return options to ensure that only one of the multiple flits being simultaneously transmitted includes a c...