ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,586, issued on July 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Allocation of access to a chiplet across an interconnect switch" was invented by Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Marcos Carranza (Portland, Ore.), Kshitij Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.), Ned Smith (Beaverton, Ore.) and Karthik Kumar (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms to allocate functionality of a chiplet for access by one or more processor cores which are coupled to remote processor via a network switch. In an embodiment, a composite chip communicates with the switch via a Compute Express Link (CXL) link. The switch receiv...