ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,629, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Data communication apparatus and method" was invented by Haralds Capkevics (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Timothy Nicholas Hay (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data communication apparatus comprises a receiver comprising message receiver circuitry to receive payload messages and sender control messages from message sender circuitry, the message receiver circuitry comprising: communication circuitry to send receiver control messages to the message sender circuitry, the receiver control messages relating to actions by the message recei...