ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,612, issued on June 2, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Methods and apparatus for communication between processing circuitry and a peripheral device" was invented by Gustavo Federico Petri (Cambridge, Great Britain), Guilhem Floreal Bryant (Cambridge, Great Britain), Nicholas Costas Spinale (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Dominic Phillip Mulligan (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises interface circuitry to interface with one or more peripheral devices, processing circuitry to execute software to communicate with a given peripheral device of the one or more peripheral device...