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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2025
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2022
Applicant:
Keithley Instruments, Llc, Solon, OH (US);
Inventors:
Gregory Roberts, Ii, Cleveland, OH (US);
William C. Weeman, Aurora, OH (US);
Assignee:
Keithley Instruments, LLC, Solon, OH (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/14 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H05K 7/1492 (2013.01); G06F 13/4265 (2013.01); H05K 7/1491 (2013.01);
Abstract
A configurable instrument includes a mainframe having one or more processors, a chassis having slots to accept one or more instrument modules, a communication bus coupled to all of the instrument modules inserted in the slots, and a communication backplane, separate from the communication bus, and configured to allow point-to-point communication between any pair of modules inserted in the slots.