ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,100, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Application processor, system-on-a-chip and method of operation thereof" was invented by Junhee Yoo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Seunghun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An application processor, a System-on-a-Chip (SoC), and a method of operating the same are provided. The SoC includes a first processor outputting a first access address, a system bus configured to transmit an access address to a memory if the access address, which is received from the first processor corresponds to a physical address area of the me...