US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA on July 14 for "Multipurpose processor card" (Maryland Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,889, issued on July 14, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA (Washington).

"Multipurpose processor card" was invented by Behnam Azimi (Greenbelt, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a multipurpose microprocessor card for use as the central processing unit for the Command Data Handling of spacecraft (C&DH), instrument and payload (IC&DH), as well as any custom instrument controller. The processor card utilizes a state-of-the-art, radiation hardened processor (e.g., Aeroflex Gaisler GR70 Quad-Core LEON4 SPARC V8 250 Mhz processor) and supports SpaceWire, technical ...