ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,609, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"FIFO data buffer with multi-load" was invented by Amiram Hochman (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example provides a device comprising a FIFO data buffer comprising a load shift register, a request line encoder, a state machine, and one or more clocks to provide a clock signal. The load shift register comprises a plurality of register locations and is configured to shift data between at least two register locations controllable on at least one shift instruction and to load data into at least one of the register locations c...