ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,311, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Multi-use chip-to-chip interface" was invented by Krishnan Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.), Ygal Arbel (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Sagheer Ahmad (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described that enable IC architectures to enable a single anchor to connect to and accept a variety of chiplets at any port by way of a programming model that enables the anchor or chiplet to dynamically adapt to configurations, requirements, or aspects of any coupled component and provide an interface for the coupled components."

The p...