ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,436, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Altera Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for capturing signals from logic circuits at a logic analyzer" was invented by Yi Peng (Newark, Calif.), Nishant Bhargava (Portland, Ore.) and Velayutham Durairaj (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit includes logic circuits, a logic analyzer circuit, and a multiplexer circuit configurable to provide a value of a signal selected from one of the logic circuits to the logic analyzer circuit. The logic analyzer circuit is configured to store the value of the signal selected by the multiplexer circuit. A method is provided for...