ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,320,851, issued on June 3, was assigned to Advantest Corp. (Tokyo).

"Software and firmware support for device interface board configured to allow devices supporting multiple different standards to interface with the same socket" was invented by Mei-Mei Su (San Jose, Calif.), Chi Yuan (San Jose, Calif.) and Linden Hsu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for testing DUT comprises receiving instructions from a system controller at a tester board, wherein the tester board comprises an FPGA and the tester processor are coupled to the system controller, and wherein the tester processor is operable to coordinate testing of ...