ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,304, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Testing multi-cycle paths based on clock pattern" was invented by Nehal Patel (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed technique includes based on a clock pattern, determining an enable configuration for setting enable signals for one or more multi-cycle paths of a hardware logic network; controlling a selector to set the enable configuration for the one or more multi-cycle paths; and executing testing operations for the hardware logic network with the one or more multi-cycle paths enabled according to the enable configu...