US Patent Issued to Signature IP on Aug. 25 for "Round robin bus arbitration with control vectors and increment and decrement functions" (Philippine, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,743, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Signature IP Corp. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Round robin bus arbitration with control vectors and increment and decrement functions" was invented by Kishore Mishra (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ralfael Himor (Manila City, Philippines) and Michael Loe Fernandez (Quezon City, Philippines).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for round robin bus arbitration are disclosed. A plurality of bus requesters is coupled to a common bus by an arbitration logic. Bus access requests are stored in a request vector (RV). A grant history vector (GHV) that contains the last granted requester is checked. A relative reque...