US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Counters for ensuring transactional ordering in I/O agent" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,723, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Counters for ensuring transactional ordering in I/O agent" was invented by Sagi Lahav (Kiryat Bialik, Israel), Lital Levy-Rubin (Tel Aviv, Israel), Gaurav Garg (San Jose, Calif.), Gerard R. Williams III (Los Altos, Calif.), Samer Nassar (Nazareth, Israel), Per H. Hammarlund (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Harshavardhan Kaushikkar (San Jose, Calif.), Srinivasa Rangan Sridharan (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jeff Gonion (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to an I/O agent circuit. The I/O agent circuit may include a transaction pipeline...