US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on May 12 for "System and method for flexibly crossing packets of different protocols" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,836, issued on May 12, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"System and method for flexibly crossing packets of different protocols" was invented by Nima Nikuie (San Francisco) and Lijish Remani Bal (Port Coquitlam, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method coupling a first and a second data bus comprising selectors for routing first bus egress lanes to egress memories, each egress memory coupled to one second bus egress lane, where the second bus has more egress lanes than the first. Each egress memory corresponds to one second bus egress lane. A first FSM selecting which first bus egress l...