ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,818, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Centralized non-system-memory gateway circuit" was invented by Ilya Granovsky (Kirayat Tivon, Israel), Lital Levy-Rubin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Lior Zimet (Kerem Maharal, Israel) and Sergio Kolor (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system with a central, non-system memory (NSM) gateway circuit for routing non-DRAM transactions between agent circuits coupled to a plurality of networks of the computer system, which may include packet-switching capabilities. Such non-DRAM transactions may be routed via a virtual channel in some implementations. To ...