ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,459, issued on July 28, was assigned to Hamilton Sundstrand Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Method for complex hardware development error mitigation via independent analog representation of digital data" was invented by Thomas P. Joyce (Rockford, Ill.), Brennan Fox (Machesney Park, Ill.), Christopher Gillette (Melbourne, Fla.), John A. Kleindienst (Rockford, Ill.) and Alan E. Lubow (Cary, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system an analog to digital converter (ADC) operatively connected to receive an analog input signal from an input line and to output a digital input signal. A processor is operatively connected to receive the digital ...