ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,279, issued on March 24, was assigned to INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Hsincu, Taiwan).

"Arrayed switch circuitry system and switching circuit" was invented by Jie Zhang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Sih-Han Li (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An arrayed switch circuitry includes contact units each of which includes a pad, a first row channel provided with a first switching element, a first column channel connected to the first row channel and provided with a second switching element, a connecting channel connecting the pad to the first row channel or the first column channel, a second row channel ...