US Patent Issued to Intel on July 14 for "Infield periodic device testing while maintaining host connectivity" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,085, issued on July 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Infield periodic device testing while maintaining host connectivity" was invented by Rakesh Kandula (Doddakannelli Bangalore, India), Sankaran Menon (Austin, Texas) and Rolf Kuehnis (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein may include apparatus, systems, techniques, and/or processes that are directed to performing testing of a device while a system is operational. A device may include computing circuitry and host connectivity registers. Host connectivity registers contain configuration and memory mapping data programmed by s...