ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,351, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Lookahead priority collection to support priority elevation" was invented by Abhijeet Ashok Chachad (Plano, Texas), Raguram Damodaran (Plano, Texas), Ramakrishnan Venkatasubramanian (Plano, Texas) and Joseph Raymond Michael Zbiciak (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A queuing requester for access to a memory system is provided. Transaction requests are received from two or more requestors for access to the memory system. Each transaction request includes an associated priority value. A request queue of the received transaction requests is formed i...