US Patent Issued to Google on Oct. 14 for "Directional control of scan capture through shared wrapper cells" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,859, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Directional control of scan capture through shared wrapper cells" was invented by Veerabhadra Rao Vasa (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of directional control of scan capture through shared wrapper cells are disclosed. For example, a control circuit of an integrated-circuit IC can enable the directional control of scan captures through a shared wrapper cell. The control circuit can receive a selection of a mode for testing the IC and, based on the selection of the mode, the control circuit configures logic of a shared wrapper cell to ...