ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,768,888, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTRUMENTS Corp. (Austin, Texas).

"Test abstraction data model" was invented by Andrew Philip Dove (Austin, Texas), Jan Viborg Moeller (Greve, Denmark), Ritesh K. Soni (Austin, Texas) and Joseph E. Peck (Hutto, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and computing devices for matching an instrument to a device-under-test for performing a test procedure. A first data structure is constructed based on a data sheet of an instrument. The first data structure includes attributes, phenomena to be measured and testing interactions for measuring respective phenomena. A test case is const...