ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,338, issued on May 13, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Configurable scan chain architecture for multi-port memory" was invented by Andy Wangkun Chen (Austin, Texas), Vianney Antoine Choserot (Antibes, France), Yew Keong Chong (Austin, Texas) and Khushal Gelda (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations described herein are related to a device having first datapath circuitry with input devices that receive data from a number of write ports and provide first data. The device may have second datapath circuitry with logic gates that receive the first data from the input devices and provi...