US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on Nov. 4 for "Identification circuit and identification method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,637, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Identification circuit and identification method" was invented by Taisuke Abe (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identification circuit (10) for identifying one circuit board (30) among a plurality of circuit boards (30) includes a switching element (11) that switches the one circuit board (30) electrically connected to the identification circuit (10) among the plurality of circuit boards (30), a circuit element group (12) electrically connected to the switching element (11), and a controller (13) electrically connected to the switching element (...