ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,343, issued on June 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Signal control using temperature and resistivity changes in a conductor" was invented by Thomas W. Liang (Rochester, Minn.), Matthew Doyle (Chatfield, Minn.), Kyle Schoneck (Rochester, Minn.), John R. Dangler (Rochester, Minn.), Jason J. Bjorgaard (Rochester, Minn.), Kevin Daniel Escobar (Rochester, Minn.), Alexander Jay Wolseth (Rochester, Minn.), Matthew A Walther (Byron, Minn.) and Dylan Grace (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal interconnect system for dynamic overshoot and undershoot damping is provided. The signal in...