ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,216, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for configuring programmable analog block" was invented by Nidhin Mulangattil Sudhakaran (Lynnwood, Wash.), Bert Sullam (Bellevue, Wash.) and Eashwar Thiagarajan (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example of the techniques presented herein, a system comprises a first input terminal and a first programmable analog block configured according to a first configuration. A controller is configured to reconfigure the first programmable analog block a...