ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,174, issued on May 20, was assigned to L3Harris Technologies Inc. (Melbourne, Fla.).

"Configuring custom hardware to operate in configurable operational modes using a scripting language" was invented by Kyle R. Morrey (Farmington, Utah), Stephen N. Jenkins (Layton, Utah) and Seth J. Thorup (Sandy, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment illustrated herein includes a hardware system for simulating a network physical layer for communication channels. The hardware system includes a plurality of hardware processors configurable to model a network physical layer and communication channels. The hardware processors include an opc...