ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,423, issued on July 7, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Unblock request" was invented by Wenjin Lu (Austin, Texas), David Frederick Greenberg (Austin, Texas), Premkishore Shivakumar (Austin, Texas), Daniel Frederick Stafford (Houston), Rohit Pandharinath Pawar (Austin, Texas), David Yue Williams (Austin, Texas) and David Allen Brown (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interconnect circuit comprises an unblock-request-receiving interconnect circuit node configured to receive a given write push request specifying write target data and write target address information identifying one or more addressed lo...