ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,251, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Raytheon Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Universal synchronous FIFO IP core for field programmable gate arrays" was invented by Vivian V. Huynh-Romine (El Segundo, Calif.), John Mui (El Segundo, Calif.) and Howard K. Luu (El Segundo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A field programmable gate array (FPGA) device including a configuration interface arranged to receive configuration data from an FPGA programmer. The FPGA device includes a plurality of random access memory (RAM) types, including a first RAM type and a second RAM type, arranged to store the configuration or image data. The FPGA device a...