ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,207, issued on May 27, was assigned to Siemens Industry Software Inc. (Plano, Texas).

"High bandwidth IJTAG through high speed parallel bus" was invented by Jean-Francois Cote (Davie, Fla.), Jan Burchard (Wilsonville, Ore.) and Jonathan Gaudet (Gatineau, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "High Bandwidth IJTAG Through High Speed Parallel Bus A system in a circuit comprises: a first network (710) configurable to transmit data in parallel in the circuit, the first network (710) comprising circuit block interface devices, each of the circuit block interface devices being coupled to ports of one of circuit blocks in the circuit; a plur...