ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,140, issued on March 24, was assigned to Cummins Inc. (Columbus, Ind.).

"Electronic control unit interfaces with flexible input signal conditioning" was invented by Sheng Xu (Greenwood, Ind.), Mark D. Akins (Columbus, Ind.) and Scott G. Decker (Columbus, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic control unit includes a housing and an interface extending across the housing including a plurality of interface pins accessible at an exterior of the housing and at an interior of the housing. A circuit board is disposed in the housing. A plurality of conductive traces are operatively coupled with the circuit board and extending bet...