ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,528, issued on Aug. 19.

"Programmatic control of device I/O, EMF quiet mode, zone, signaling, and protocol" was invented by Francis J. Leahy (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Programmatic control of device I/O and EMF quiet mode, zone, signaling, and protocol are disclosed. Programmatic device I/O control reduces EMF radiation from a device with a device I/O controller application for programmatic control of the device's I/O channels. Responsive to firing of control rules, the device I/O application calls device APIs to control I/O channel settings. A quiet mode that reduces overall EMF radiation from a device is ad...