ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,374, issued on July 29, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS (GRAND OUEST) SAS (Le Mans, France) and STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Method for managing the operation of a system on chip, and corresponding system on chip" was invented by Loic Pallardy (Rouillon, France) and Nicolas Saux (Aix-en-Provence, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including a first port configured to simultaneously couple with a first device and a second device; and a management circuit configured to route a data signal received from a first controller to the first device in response to receiving a first-device direction from th...