ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,467,969, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ADVANTEST Corp. (Tokyo).
"Automated test equipment and method using device specific data" was invented by Matthias Sauer (Boblingen, Germany), Olaf Poppe (Tubingen, Germany) and Klaus-Dieter Hilliges (Stuttgart, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated test equipment comprises a tester control configured to broadcast and/or specific upload to matching module input data and/or device-specific data including keys and/or credentials and/or IDs and/or configuration information. The automated test equipment further comprises a channel processing unit configured to transform input data usi...