ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,064, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to NXP USA Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"System and method to facilitate access by a remote computer to a PCIe configuration space" was invented by Alexandru Marginean (Meilen, Switzerland), Prabhjot Singh (Noida, India), Mohit Satsangi (New Delhi), Amit Rao (Austin, Texas), Nutan Kishor Shivhare (Gwalior, India) and Robert Freddie Linn-Moran (Largs, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facilitating access to a PCIe configuration space of a PCIe function associated with a computer comprises receiving by a PCIe controller EP in the computer over a PCIe link a configuration request from a remote co...