ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,525, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Mechanisms for arbitrating among packets in hierarchical arbitration architecture" was invented by Lital Levy-Rubin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Daniel U. Becker (San Jose, Calif.), Moti Altahan (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Nabeel Achlaug (Kfar Kama, Israel), Rafael K. Vivas Maeda (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jeonghee Shin (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Roi Uziel (Misgav, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a computer system comprises one or more co-packaged integrated circuits having a communication fabric that couples various agent circuits. The agent circuits transm...