ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,562, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Distribution of interconnect bandwidth among master agents" was invented by Frank Hellwig (Wunstorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for distributing interconnect bandwidth among master agents. The method includes allocating to each of the master agents a respective portion of the interconnect bandwidth within a time interval; monitoring the master agents to determine if any of the master agents has consumed its allocated portion of interconnect bandwidth within a current time interval; and if a master agent has consu...