ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,336, issued on July 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Multichannel memory arbitration and interleaving scheme" was invented by Daniel Brad Wu (Plano, Texas), Abhishek Shankar (Sugar Land, Texas), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bengaluru, India), Gregory Raymond Shurtz (Houston), Jason A. T. Jones (Richmond, Texas) and Hemant Vijay Kumar Hariyani (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Arbitration and interleaving are performed with respect to memory requests in a memory controller that includes a set of interfaces, each configured to be coupled to a respective one of multiple external requestors, in which each interface ...