ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,278,672, issued on April 15, was assigned to Hitachi Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Computing apparatus and margin measurement method" was invented by Ryota Higashi (Tokyo) and Masao Ogihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing apparatus, includes a first apparatus and a second apparatus, a differential transmission line that couples the first apparatus and the second apparatus to each other, a noise application unit that applies noise to the differential transmission line, a noise control unit that controls the noise application unit, and a margin measurement unit that measures an occurrence frequency of communication error between the firs...