US Patent Issued to ADVANTEST on Nov. 11 for "Automated test equipment and method using a trigger generation" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,973, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ADVANTEST Corp. (Tokyo).

"Automated test equipment and method using a trigger generation" was invented by Matthias Sauer (Boblingen, Germany) and Olaf Poppe (Tubingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated test equipment comprises a main test flow control configured to operate a test flow in multiple device communication units and/or to provide the trigger configuration information to a local compute unit. The automated test equipment further comprises a device communication unit comprising a trigger generation unit configured to generate a trigger signal. The trigger generation u...