US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 14 for "Deadlock detection and removal for mesh network for a processor-based system" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,879, issued on July 14, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Deadlock detection and removal for mesh network for a processor-based system" was invented by Thomas Basnight (Raleigh, N.C.), Gregory A. Bryant (Raleigh, N.C.) and Viren Ramesh Patel (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting a deadlock in a cyclical dependency between a set of the plurality of nodes in a mesh network. In some aspects, each of the nodes having a stall detection circuit. The stall detection circuit of each of the nodes operates by providing a stall output that is asserted not o...