ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,451, issued on May 27, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Selective communication interfaces for programmable parts" was invented by Benjamin Goska (Portland, Ore.), Ryan Albright (Beaverton, Ore.), William Andrew Mecham (Elk Grove, Calif.), William Ryan Weese (Portland, Ore.), Aaron Richard Carkin (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Michael Thompson (Wilsonville, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, systems, and methods for communication interfaces of a programmable part. In at least one embodiment, one or more communication interfaces are secured to a top side of a programmable part to provide programmable access to...