ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,227, issued on May 19, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Flexible configuration components" was invented by Frederic Ruelle (Marigne-Laille, France), Yohann Martiniault (Val D'Ize, France), Bechir Jabri (Ariana, Tunisia), Maher Mastouri (Ariana, Tunisia), Laurent Meunier (Coulaines, France), Emmanuel Grandin (Villeneuve-en-Retz, France) and Maxime Dortel (Grasse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Content is generated for a programmable computing device based on user-selected configuration information. The user-selected configuration information includes a user-selected versatile component. User-selec...