ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,085, issued on April 15.

"Instrumentation system configured with a common base module" was invented by Bradford T Hite (Valencia, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A unique system for the implementation of different instrumentation type functions using a configurable common base module combined with a family of input/output interface modules is described. More specifically, this invention relates to the usage of a configurable common base module to provide timing/control signals for different input/output interface modules each combining to form a unique instrumentation function or feature. Some examples of instrumentation functio...