US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Dec. 30 for "Data routing for networks on a chip using virtual channels and credit restrictions" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,081, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Data routing for networks on a chip using virtual channels and credit restrictions" was invented by Philippe Boucard (Le Chesnay, France), Christophe Layer (Paris), Ameline Le Rouzic (Versailles, France) and Suzie Marin (Issy les Moulineaux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for enhancing data communication and computation efficiency in Systems on a Chip (SoC). In one aspect, a system is provided that uses a network on a chip (NOC) to route communications between chip components using a plurality of network i...