US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Oct. 28 for "Remedial action in an integrated circuit in response to a monitor circuit diagnostic code sequence" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,996, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Remedial action in an integrated circuit in response to a monitor circuit diagnostic code sequence" was invented by Anatoly Gelman (San Diego), Michael James Smith (Vancouver, Canada), James Cheng-Huan Wu (Vancouver, Canada), Olivier Alavoine (San Diego) and Amit Aneja (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects relate to monitoring timing margin of logic paths and its degradation through an integrated circuit. In one example an integrated circuit has a logic path formed in the integrated circuit. A monitor circuit is formed in the integrated circuit near...