ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,403, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cadence Design Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Verification of data communication specification using sequence number-based monitor synchronization" was invented by Pedro Eugenio Medeiros (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), Claire Liyan Ying (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Gustavo Emanuel Faria Araujo (Belo Horizonte, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments provide for verifying operation of a circuit design with respect to a data communication specification, such as a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) specification, using sequence numbers (e.g., fixed byte-size unit (FLIT)...