ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,719, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Software parameter management through a universal interface" was invented by Nozomu Matsushita (Tokyo), Katsurou Hayashi (Tokyo) and Yasuko Andoh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some implementations described herein provide techniques and apparatuses for software parameter management through a universal interface. The techniques and apparatuses include a user device including a universal parameter management application. The user device may receive multiple sets of changeable parameters that may be provided to the user device...