US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Oct. 20 for "Resetting integrated circuits" (Canadian, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,329, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Resetting integrated circuits" was invented by Leon Zlotnik (Camino, Calif.), Leonid Minz (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Yoav Weinberg (Thornhill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of flip-flops of an integrated circuit (IC) (e.g., an ASIC) are electrically connected in a predefined series. The scan input gate of any give flip-flop in the predefined series is electrically connected to one of a Q output gate or a Q-bar output gate of an adjacent flip-flop in the predefined series. A reset operation for the IC occurs by feeding a bit string of ide...