ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,359, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Xilinx Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for managing channel accessibility" was invented by Mark Richard Nethercot (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Martin Rhodes (Edinburgh, Great Britain), David Riddoch (Cambridge, Great Britain), Connor Hughes (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Gareth David Edwards (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for managing channel accessibility can include detecting, by a first circuit, a transmit request from the first circuit to transmit a message into a communication channel connecting the first circuit to secon...