ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,784, issued on April 14, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Circuitry including scan and non-scan registers" was invented by Prashant Mohan Kulkarni (Cambridge, Great Britain), Leo Soundhar Prakash Panneer (Austin, Texas) and Teresa Louise McLaurin (Dripping Springs, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Briefly, example apparatuses, articles of manufacture, and/or techniques are disclosed that may be implemented, in whole or in part, to implement, facilitate and/or support integrated circuit design-for-testing, such as, a scan register coupled to one or more non-scan registers via a multiplexer having first and se...