US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Nov. 18 for "System access boundary scan via system sideband signal connections" (Idaho Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,406, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"System access boundary scan via system sideband signal connections" was invented by Michael Richard Spica (Eagle, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by automated test equipment (ATE) includes power cycling a solid state drive (SSD) device under test by the ATE, wherein the SSD device includes a memory controller integrated circuit (IC) attached to a printed circuit board (PCB) having a PCB interface; communicating one or more signals between the ATE and the memory controller IC using the PCB interface in a normal system mode; sending ...