ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,308, issued on July 8, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).
"Processor with debug pipeline" was invented by Shrey Bhatia (Freising, Germany), Christian Wiencke (Garching, Germany), Armin Stingl (Erding, Germany), Ralph Ledwa (Buching, Germany) and Wolfgang Lutsch (Freising, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes execution circuitry, within an execution power domain, to process an instruction; and a debug system, within a separate debug power domain, to selectively operate to perform debugging operations on the processor. The processor further includes power control circuitry coupled to the debug system...