US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on July 14 for "PCIe peripheral sharing" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,874, issued on July 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"PCIe peripheral sharing" was invented by Sriramakrishnan Govindarajan (Bengaluru, India), Kishon Vijay Abraham Israel Vijayponraj (Bengaluru, India), Mihir Narendra Mody (Bengaluru, India) and Jason A. T. Jones (Richmond, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peripheral proxy subsystem provides routing mechanisms to allow multiple hosts to communicate with multiple functions, physical and virtual, of a single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV) peripheral, which may include a physical function and a plurality of virtual functions associated with the physical func...