US Patent Issued to Advantest on May 27 for "Automated test equipment comprising a plurality of communication interfaces to a device under test" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,585, issued on May 27, was assigned to Advantest Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automated test equipment comprising a plurality of communication interfaces to a device under test" was invented by Frank Hensel (Boblingen, Germany) and Olaf Poppe (Tubingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The automated test equipment is configured to establish communication, e.g. by uploading a program to the DUT using a first interface, such as a debug interface or a generic interface having access to the processing unit for external control. A typical use case of the first interface is debug access to the DUT, which typically requires limited data rates. In ...