US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on July 22 for "Area, cost, and time-effective scan coverage improvement" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,605, issued on July 22, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Area, cost, and time-effective scan coverage improvement" was invented by Venkata Narayanan Srinivasan (Greater Noida, India), Umesh Chandra Srivastava (Greater Noida, India), Shiv Kumar Vats (Greater Noida, India) and Manish Sharma (Gurgaon, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a digital circuit includes an OR gate and a flip-flop. The OR gate includes a first input and a second input. The first input of the OR gate is coupled to a control signal, and the second input of the OR gate is coupled to an uncovered function...