ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,374,416, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lattice Semiconductor Corp. (Hillsboro, Ore.).

"Programmable linear-feedback shift register systems and methods" was invented by Wolfgang Roethig (San Jose, Calif.) and Ashutosh Dikshit (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various techniques are provided to implement programmable linear-feedback shift register (LFSR) circuits. In one example, the LFSR circuit includes state storage elements. Each state storage element is configured to store a state signal. The LFSR circuit further includes programmable logic stage circuits each configured to selectively receive an input signal and a...