ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,245, issued on March 4, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Logic circuitry" was invented by James Michael Gardner (Corvallis, Ore.), Scott A. Linn (Corvallis, Ore.), Stephen D. Panshin (Corvallis, Ore.), Jefferson P. Ward (Vancouver, Wash.) and David Owen Roethig (Vancouver, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example, a logic circuit comprising a communications interface including a data contact to communicate via a communications bus, an enablement contact, separate from the communication interface, to receive an input to enable the logic circuit, and at least one memory register, comprising...