ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,396, issued on April 7, was assigned to Infineon Technologies Americas Corp. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Autonomous adaptively reconfigurable system" was invented by Eashwar Thiagarajan (Bothell, Wash.), Bert Sullam (Bellevue, Wash.), Nidhin Mulangattil Sudhakaran (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Andrew Page (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations disclosed describe a programmable analog subsystem (PASS) having a plurality of reconfigurable analog circuits. The PASS may be coupled to an input/output device to receive an input signal and to an interface to communicate data with a central processing unit. A controller may be co...