ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,077, issued on April 15.

"Software-decoupling-based hardware control apparatus and method" was invented by Zhijie Bao (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a software-decoupling-based hardware control apparatus and method. The software-decoupling-based hardware control apparatus includes one or more parameter test controllers; each parameter test controller includes a test command input FIFO, a command parameter map memory, a parameter test command processor, and a device control generator. By means of separating a software low level driver from a specific chip controlled by hardware, the pres...