ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,249, issued on May 20, was assigned to Atmosic Technologies Inc. (Campbell, Calif.).
"Saving and restoring scan states" was invented by Mohsen Shaaban (San Jose, Calif.) and Steven Stoiber (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless device that can save and restore state information is disclosed. The wireless device stores state information in non-persistent registers during an active power state, routes the state information from the non-persistent registers to a non-volatile memory, via a boundary scan chain using one or more test signals, based on an indication that the wireless device is to enter a low-power state...