US Patent Issued to Altera on Jan. 27 for "Interface/unicast for test content, firmware, and software delivery" (Indian, American, Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,525, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Interface/unicast for test content, firmware, and software delivery" was invented by Rakesh Kandula (Bangalore, India), Sankaran Menon (Austin, Texas), Seng Choon Thor (Bayan Lepas, Malaysia), Shivaprashant Bulusu (Bangalore, India), Eswar Vadlamani (Bengaluru, India) and Ramakrishnan Venkatasubramanian (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for interface conversion and unicast for test content, firmware, and software delivery are described. An example apparatus comprises a scan test interface coupled to multiple circuits blocks to perform ...