US Patent Issued to Altera on Sept. 23 for "Systems and methods for configurable interface circuits" (American, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,030, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for configurable interface circuits" was invented by Paul Rotker (Stow, Mass.), Lai Guan Tang (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia), Luis Hau (Fremont, Calif.) and Ilya Ganusov (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes a region of logic circuits, first and second selector circuits, a first interface circuit for exchanging information with a first type of device according to a first communication protocol, and a second interface circuit for exchanging information with a second type of device according to a second com...