ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,370, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Data gating using scan enable pin" was invented by FNU Rajeev Kumar (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Chandan Shantharaj (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An Integrated Circuit (IC) includes a storage element and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to select, responsively to a scan-enable control, between a functional-data input and a scan-data input to serve as an input to the storage element, to selectively disable toggling of an output of the storage element, responsively to a clock-enable control, by gating a clock signal provided t...