ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,269, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Functional verification using targeted commands and simulated interaction" was invented by Olaf Knute Hendrickson (Rochester, Minn.), Michael P. Mullen (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Carsten Greiner (Holzgerlingen, Germany) and Monalisa Rout (Boeblingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Simulated interaction between processor hardware as part of processor functional verification includes, in an example, commencing a simulation in a simulation environment. The simulation executes a test case using a model of a processor core for functional ve...