US Patent Issued to Cadence Design Systems on Dec. 30 for "Physical awareness of test-point sharing in a circuit design" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,462, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Physical awareness of test-point sharing in a circuit design" was invented by Brian Foutz (Charlottesville, Va.), Krishna Chakravadhanula (Vestal, N.Y.), Prateek Kumar Rai (Uttar Pradesh, India), Sarthak Singhal (Noida-UttarPradesh, India), Vivek Chickermane (Slaterville Springs, N.Y.), Huafeng Yang (San Jose, Calif.) and Christos Papameletis (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory that stores instructions and a processing unit that accesses the memory and executes the instructions. The instructions include an EDA ap...