US Patent Issued to Marvell Asia on Sept. 22 for "Circuit and method with age-and-brink-based arbitration" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,389, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Marvell Asia Pte Ltd (Singapore).

"Circuit and method with age-and-brink-based arbitration" was invented by Robert Michael Bunce (Cary, N.C.), Thomas Lorne Drabenstott (Cary, N.C.) and Jeffrey Richard Hardesty (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit and corresponding method perform arbitration. The circuit comprises an arbiter that outputs a selection for accessing a shared resource. The selection is based on input priorities for multiple requesters that share the shared resource. The input priorities are controlled via an age parameter and a brink parameter. The age and brink pa...