ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,343, issued on June 23.

"System and method for performing scan chain ECO" was invented by Yu Ye (Shenzhen, China), Feng Yuan (Shenzhen, China), Xing Wei (Shenzhen, China), Yi Diao (Shenzhen, China), Xiaoqing Yang (Shenzhen, Grenada), Linhan Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Yibo Wang (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaoqiang Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a system and a method for performing a scan chain ECO, the method includes: receiving an original netlist input by a user as first input information, the original netlist contains original scan chain information; receiving a register modification l...