US Patent Issued to Keithley Instruments on July 15 for "Direct instrument-to-instrument communication without using a system controller" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,853, issued on July 15, was assigned to Keithley Instruments LLC (Solon, Ohio).

"Direct instrument-to-instrument communication without using a system controller" was invented by Gregory Roberts II (Cleveland) and William C. Weeman (Aurora, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configurable instrument includes a mainframe having one or more processors, a chassis having slots to accept one or more instrument modules, a communication bus coupled to all of the instrument modules inserted in the slots, and a communication backplane, separate from the communication bus, and configured to allow point-to-point communication between any pair ...