Patent number 371506 has been granted to INTEL CORPORATION that is titled RECONFIGURABLE SENSING PLATFORM FOR SOFTWARE-DEFINED INSTRUMENTATION. During the patent prosecution, the patent examiner objected to this patent under section 3(k) of the Indian Patents Act. The patent applicant responded to this objection by stating that the claims have been amended to clarify that “the reconfigurable block” is “reconfigurable” in the sense that it is “the logic functions” performed by the circuits of the reconfigurable block that are re-configurable into different configurations, in accordance with different implementations of “HDL code based on the (different stored) hardware description information. This patent falls under the category of Computer Science. Overall, this patent covers a reconfigurable sensor including a logic block having a storage circuit that stores hardware description information and a reconfigurable block including circuits.