US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) on Nov. 3 for "Processor identification" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,241, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).

"Processor identification" was invented by Philippe Pijourlet (Mouans-Sartoux, France) and Brice Dufour (Cagnes sur Mer, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description concerns a device comprising a bus, peripherals coupled to the bus, the peripherals comprising a first circuit, processors coupled to the bus and initiating accesses to the peripherals, each comprising an address phase followed by a data phase, and for each processor, a second circuit delivering an identifier of the processor over the bus during the address phase of...