US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 8 for "State clearing of internal memory and flip-flops of a system using built-in test and scan circuitry" (Indiana, California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,940, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"State clearing of internal memory and flip-flops of a system using built-in test and scan circuitry" was invented by Pradipta Kumar Ghosh (Palo Alto, Calif.), Suresh Duthiraru (Portland, Ore.) and Brian Matthew Sutton (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for state clearing of internal memory and flip-flops of a system using built-in test and scan circuitry are provided. A method includes a security processor: (1) fetching memory built-in self-test (MBIST) data and providing the MBIST data to an internal fi...