US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 18 for "Continuing to test a hardware component after occurrence of a checkstop" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,009, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Continuing to test a hardware component after occurrence of a checkstop" was invented by Divya Kumudprakash Joshi (Hobli, India), Edward J. Kaminski Jr. (Wynnewood, Pa.), Kyle Davis (Pflugerville, Texas) and Shaun Thomas Uldrikis (Hyde Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for testing hardware in an environment involving a checkstop. Errors are injected into a model of a design under test (DUT), which includes a first hardware component interfaced with a second hardware...