ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,646, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method for sharing resource via bus" was invented by Dongsik Cho (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The device described herein, which provides an interface between a plurality of master devices and a slave device, includes: a first timer configured to begin timing when a first access request is received from a first master device via a bus, and to be reset when a semaphore is allocated to the first master device; a second timer configured to begin timing when a second access request is received from a secon...