ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,616, issued on June 2, was assigned to The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the Navy (Washington).

"Hardware multiplexed memory for unidirectional data transfer" was invented by Christopher Paul Gage (San Diego) and Peter Thomas Sullivan (Encinitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention involves hardware multiplexed memory for unidirectional data transfer circuits, systems and methods. The invention is useful for gathering data at a primary processor and efficiently transferring that data to a secondary processor using Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (QSPI) protocol. The hardware mult...