ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,825, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Sharing and protecting secured subordinate devices on an unsecured bus" was invented by Arun Gothekar (Hyderabad, India), Nileena Pathalayi Alakandy (Bangalore, India), Ravi Gupta (San Diego), Gur Prasad Srivastava (Bengaluru, India), Rajesh Chava (Khammam, India), Mukesh Kumar Pravinbhai Savaliya (Hyderabad, India) and Bhavya Soneta (Indore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peripheral controller includes a serial engine configured to provide an interface to a serial bus, a multiplexer configured to select between transactions directed to the serial bus and ini...