ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,123, issued on July 22, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Method and system to delay a response associated with a bus transaction that is transmitted to a bus master to perform fault testing" was invented by Mukesh Bansal (Noida, India), Prabhjot Singh (Noida, India) and Sudip Jain (Noida, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bus response to a bus request transmitted by a bus master over a network circuit is received by a bus response modifier. The bus response is transmitted by a bus slave and the bus request and the bus response are associated with a bus transaction over the network circuit. The bus response mod...