US Patent Issued to INVENSENSE on April 21 for "Backpower-safe test switch" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,697, issued on April 21, was assigned to INVENSENSE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Backpower-safe test switch" was invented by Tim Piessens (Bornem, Belgium), Robin Croon (Leuven, Belgium) and Athanasios Sarafianos (Landen, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments provide backpower-safe test switches, devices, systems, and methods. By maintaining high impedance on an existing communications bus integrated circuit pin, disclosed embodiments prevent backpower of integrated circuits even when the integrated circuits are powered off. In a non-limiting aspect, disclosed embodiments facilitate increased final ASIC test cove...