US Patent Issued to Yokogawa Electric on June 30 for "Information processing apparatus with swappable parallel modules" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,118, issued on June 30, was assigned to Yokogawa Electric Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing apparatus with swappable parallel modules" was invented by Tatsuya Kurihara (Musashino, Japan) and Takuya Tachibana (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing apparatus (1) includes first modules (20) including an arithmetic circuit (22) configured to perform a predetermined calculation, and a plurality of second modules (30) capable of having at least one of the first modules (20) connected thereto in parallel and capable of being connected in series with each other by a serial bus (51)."

The patent was f...