ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,702, issued on March 31, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Permission translator" was invented by Richard Landenbach (Langen, Del.), Kai Dieffenbach (Egelsbach, Germany) and Uwe Moslehner (Geiselbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for translating permission identifiers in bus access transactions. In one example, a processing system includes a source system element characterized by a plurality of source privilege levels; a destination system element characterized by a plurality of destination privilege levels; and translator circuitry coupled betwee...