ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,235, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to FANUC Corp. (Yamanashi, Japan).

"Electronic apparatus" was invented by Masahiro Saeki (Yamanashi-ken, Japan), Shinichi Kuwahata (Yamanashi-ken, Japan) and Asunaro Maeda (Yamanashi-ken, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus for inputting and outputting signals is provided with a plurality of processing circuits for inputting and outputting signals, a plurality of common power terminals connected to different processing circuits to supply power to each of the plurality of processing circuits, a plurality of individual power terminals connected to different processing circui...