ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,882, issued on July 14.

"Bus protocol for multiple chipsets" was invented by Farouk Belghoul (Campbell, Calif.), Paul V. Flynn (Menlo Park, Calif.), Tideya Kella (San Jose, Calif.) and Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Circuits, methods, and apparatus that can allow chipsets in an electronic device to share information such that they can more efficiently utilize resources that are available in the electronic device. One example can provide a bus that is shared by three or more chipsets in an electronic device. This shared bus can be used by the chipsets in the electronic device to communicate and ...