US Patent Issued to Siemens Industry Software on Dec. 2 for "Read-only memory diagnosis and repair" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,852, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"Read-only memory diagnosis and repair" was invented by Benoit Nadeau-Dostie (Gatineau, Canada) and Jongsin Yun (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A testing circuit configured to test and diagnose a read-only memory comprises two multiple-input signature registers configured to generate two sets of signatures for multiple iterations of reading some or all of words stored in the read-only memory, control circuitry configured to control, according to a test algorithm, from which of the outputs of the read-only memory each of the two multipl...