ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,094, issued on March 17, was assigned to THALES DIS FRANCE SAS (Meudon, France).

"Method for managing access by a thread to a slave device" was invented by Yannick Teglia (Belcodene, France), Jean Roch Coulon (Le Tholonet, France), Andre Sintzoff (Marseilles, France) and Antoine Christin (Cesson-Sevigne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a data processing system comprising a bus interconnect structure, a slave device coupled to the bus interconnect structure, a slave protection unit coupled to the bus interconnect structure, a plurality of master devices coupled to the bus interconnect structure...