ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,467, issued on March 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for module configurability" was invented by Ehud Reshef (Qiryat Tivon, Israel), Eytan Mann (Modiin M, Israel) and Markus Dominik Mueck (Unterhaching, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component (e.g. a module configuration system) of a device may include an interface and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry may be configured to: determine identification information of a hardware device (e.g. module, microchip) connected to the component via the interface; obtain device information for the connected hardware device based on...