ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,080, issued on April 29, was assigned to STMicroelectronics France (Montrouge, France), STMICROELECTRONICS (ROUSSET) SAS (Rousset, France) and STMicroelectronics (Grand Quest) SAS (Le Mans, France).

"Method, system, and device for software and hardware component configuration and content generation" was invented by Emmanuel Grandin (Villeneuve-en-Retz, France), Nabil Safi (Cite Ghazela, Tunisia), Maxime Dortel (Grasse, France), Laurent Meunier (Coulaines, France) and Frederic Ruelle (Marigne-Laille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method, and circuitry for generating content for a programmable computing device based on u...