ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,770, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System for automated data retrieval from an integrated circuit for event analysis" was invented by Padmanabham Patki (Fremont, Calif.), Jue Wu (Los Gatos, Calif.), Andrew Elias (Ottawa) and Smbat Tonoyan (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for automated data retrieval from an integrated circuit (IC). An example system receives an alert indicating a trigger event associated with the IC; extracts, using a scan island (e.g., a partition of the IC that is isolated for data retriev...