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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 06, 2019
Applicant:

Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p., Spring, TX (US);

Inventors:

John Michael Rossi, Vancouver, WA (US);

Erik Donald Ness, Vancouver, WA (US);

Scott Alan Linn, Corvallis, OR (US);

James Michael Gardner, Corvallis, OR (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B41J 2/175 (2006.01); G01R 31/68 (2020.01); G01R 31/28 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/68 (2020.01); B41J 2/17546 (2013.01); G01R 31/2853 (2013.01);
Abstract

Examples of an electronic device are described. In some examples, the electronic device includes a first shared line of a plurality of first contacts to respectively connect to a plurality of integrated circuits, a plurality of second lines of respective second contacts to respectively connect to the plurality of integrated circuits, and a third shared line of a plurality of third contacts to respectively connect to the plurality of integrated circuits. In some examples, the electronic device includes circuitry to determine whether one of the third contacts is connected to an integrated circuit based on a state of the first shared line and a state of one of the second lines that is associated with the one of the third contacts.


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